Overview
- A shallow earthquake with a revised magnitude of 5.6 occurred at 04:13 local time on Tuesday in Chaparral, Tolima, and several aftershocks were recorded.
- The tremor was widely felt across central and southwest Colombia, including Bogotá, Cali, Manizales and Armenia, prompting precautionary evacuations in some buildings.
- National agencies including the Servicio Geológico Colombiano and the Unidad Nacional para la Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres reported no confirmed fatalities or major structural collapses in their initial bulletins.
- Local consolidated reports and regional authorities documented limited injuries, damage to a small number of homes and precautionary evacuations such as the temporary clearing of 419 passengers at Matecaña airport.
- The event is being evaluated in the context of an unusually active local seismic sequence in Chaparral in late September and the country’s broader tectonic risk, and authorities say monitoring and damage surveys are ongoing.