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Magnitude 3.3 earthquake strikes near Villavicencio, Departamento del Meta, Colombia

Published: 24 August 2025
Categories: Global Earthquake Activity

RSS feed source: USGS Earthquake Hazards Program

Mon, 25 Aug 2025, 01:43 | BY: EARTHQUAKEMONITOR

Just 13 minutes ago, a 3.3-magnitude earthquake struck near Villavicencio, Departamento del Meta, Colombia. The tremor was recorded in the evening on Sunday, August 24th, 2025, at 8:29 pm local time, at a very shallow depth of 0. km below the surface.
The event was filed by The Colombian Geological Service (SGC), the first seismological agency to report it.
Our monitoring service identified a second report from the citizen-seismograph network of RaspberryShake which listed the quake at magnitude 3.3 as well.
Based on the preliminary seismic data, the quake should not have caused any significant damage, but was probably felt by many people as light vibration in the area of the epicenter.
Weak shaking might have been felt in Acacias (pop. 40,600) located 8 km from the epicenter.
Other towns or cities near the epicenter where the quake might have been felt as very weak shaking include Villavicencio (pop. 321,700) located 14 km from the epicenter, Guamal (pop. 13,900) 19 km away, Restrepo (pop. 17,600) 29 km away, Cumaral (pop. 11,300) 35 km away, and San Martin (pop. 22,300) 38 km away. In Granada (pop. 32,400, 55 km away), Bogota (pop. 7,674,400, 76 km away), Fusagasuga (pop. 88,800, 80 km away), and Soacha (pop. 313,900, 82 km away), the quake was probably not felt.

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Green alert for tropical cyclone TEN-E-25. Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 0 (0 in Tropical Storm).

Published: 24 August 2025
Categories: Global Disaster Alerts

RSS feed source: USGS Earthquake Hazards Program

From 24/08/2025 to 24/08/2025, a Tropical Depression (maximum wind speed of 83 km/h) TEN-E-25 was active in EastPacific. The cyclone affects these countries: [unknown] (vulnerability [unknown]). Estimated population affected by category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 0 (0 in tropical storm).

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