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M5.2 Earthquake Recorded Near COLOMBIA

Updated: EMSC Global downgraded this solution from M5.3 to M5.2. EMSC Global reports M5.2 near COLOMBIA, with a 117.0 km catalog depth.

Published · Updated 2026-09-14T20:18:32.679Z

News card for M5.2 Earthquake Recorded Near COLOMBIA

Update: the reporting agency changed this event's magnitude from M5.3 to M5.2. The current value is shown throughout this brief; the earlier value is retained here as revision history.

The event began at Mon, 14 Sep 2026 20:02:06 GMT. EMSC Global reports magnitude 5.2, 117.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates 4.576, -76.784.

The catalog location label is COLOMBIA; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is an intermediate-depth event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 3.98e+12 joules, or about 951 tons of TNT equivalent; that calculation describes source energy, not local damage.

The current catalog entry does not include a public felt-report count. No separate intensity or catalog-significance detail is available from this provider record. No official casualty or damage statement is attached to the normalized event evidence.

EMSC Global has not supplied a review status in the normalized record. No station-count, phase-count, residual, gap, or uncertainty fields were supplied in the normalized record. No alternate network solution is attached to this record.

The provider record does not carry a tsunami flag at publication time. Magnitude, depth, and location can change as monitoring networks add observations and review the solution.

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EMSC event record: COLOMBIA — EMSC Global
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