1994 Páez River earthquake

Earthquake in Colombia 1994 Páez River earthquake 1994-06-06 20:47:41 167996 iscgem167996 1994 06 06 15:47:41 COT Colombia 1 2.917 -76.057 Bullseye1.png 40 top 250 center 6.8 w y 12 km 2.917 -76.057 inline,titlehttp://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/results?eq_0=5387&t=101650&s=13&d=22,26,13,12&nd=display https://web.archive.org/web/20170920092806/https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/results?eq_0=5387&t=101650&s=13&d=22,26,13,12&nd=display dead September 20, 2017 Significant earthquake National Geophysical Data Center 2013-05-02 Colombia No at least 1,100 dead 9 The 1994 Páez River earthquake occurred on June 6 with a moment magnitude of 6.8 at a depth of 12 km on. The event, which is also known as the Páez River disaster, included subsequent landslides and mudslides that destroyed much of the Páez municipality, located on the foothills of the Central Ranges of the Andes in Cauca in south-western Colombia.ingeominas It was estimated that 1,100 people, mostly from the Páez, were killed in some 15 settlements on the Páez River basin, Cauca and Huila departments of which the eponymous municipality of Páez suffered 50% of the death toll.Wilches-Chauxred In response to the disaster, the government created the Nasa Kiwe Corporation to bring relief to the area, and begin the reconstruction of the affected areas. See also List of earthquakes in 1994 List of earthquakes in Colombia References and notes ingeominas. Sismo del 6 de junio de 1994 El sismo de Paez de 1994. "(...)A causa del sismo se registraron 20 personas muertas y algunos heridos, cifra nada comparable con la cantidad de víctimas que dejaron las avalanchas, calculada en más de 300 muertos y 500 desaparecidos." Wilches-Chaux. Detailed descriptions and photographs of the events, the outcomes, the handling of the emergency and later developments and social consequences can be seen in Nasa kive the government corporation for the reconstruction of the Páez River basin. red. A detailed report with complementary information about this particular disaster and several others that took place around the same time in the Andean countries can be obtained in a special issue of the journal Desastres y Sociedad, published by La Red de Estudios Sociales en Prevención de Desastres en América Latina in 1995. Further reading Martinez, J.M., Avila, G., Agudelo, A., Schuster, R.L., Casadevall, T.J., and K.M. Scott, 1995. Landslides and debris flows triggered by the 6 June 1994 Paez earthquake, southwestern Colombia. Landslide News, no. 9:13–15. Kyoto: Japan Landslide Society. Schuster, R.L., 1995. Landslides and floods triggered by the June 6, 1994, Paez earthquake, southwestern Colombia. Association of Engineering Geologists, AEG News 38:1:32–33. External links Landslides and lahar at Nevado del Huila Volcano, Colombia from the United States Geological Survey 167996 expanded 1994 Paez Paez, 1994 Paez Category:June 1994 in South America Category:1990s landslides Category:1994 natural disasters Category:1994 disasters in Colombia Category:Páez, Cauca