1875 Cúcuta earthquake

Earthquake in Colombia and Venezuela October 2024 1875 Cúcuta earthquake 18 May 1875 11:15 1875-05-18 yes Colombia w 6.75 7.9 -72.5 inline,title Colombia, Venezuela ~10,000 thumb|250px|Cúcuta at 1900 thumb|250px|The Julio Pérez Ferrero Library, one of the oldest buildings of Cúcuta. The 1875 Cúcuta earthquake (also known as earthquake of the Andes) occurred on 18 May at 11:15 AM. It completely demolished Cúcuta, Villa del Rosario (Colombia), San Antonio del Tachira and Capacho (Venezuela). The earthquake killed many Venezuelans in San Cristóbal, La Mulata, Rubio, Michelena, La Grita, Colón, amongst others, and was felt in both Bogotá and Caracas. That day, the city of Cúcuta and the town of Villa del Rosario, in the Norte de Santander department (Colombia) and the municipalities of San Antonio del Táchira and Capacho, Táchira State (Venezuela) were destroyed totally by this catastrophic earthquake. Villa del Rosario was a historical and calm population. In 1821 had met in the main church (Historic church) to means to construct, the members of the First Congress of the Great Colombia, known as Congress of Cúcuta. The ruins of the collapsed church can still be seen today. The houses of that time in the zone were of the purest Spanish colonial style. Geology The earthquake occurred in the Mérida Andes and scientists proposed it was associated with rupture on the Aguas Calientes Fault System or faults in the Cucuta graben. The Aguas Calientes Fault System is a northwestern extension of the Boconó Fault. Paleoseismic studies of the Aguas Calientes Fault System at the presumed earthquake epicenter revealed evidence of recent surface rupture. The central part of the Aguas Calientes Fault System was the likely source of the event. Its moment magnitude is estimated at w 6.75.Rodríguez Luz Diederix Hans Torres Eliana Audemard Franck Hernández Catalina Singer André Bohórquez Olga Yepez Santiago Identification of the seismogenic source of the 1875 Cucuta earthquake on the basis of a combination of neotectonic, paleoseismologic and historic seismicity studies Journal of South American Earth Sciences 2018 82 274–291 10.1016/j.jsames.2017.09.019 2018JSAES..82..274R Death toll The exact number of victims is not known; Spokane Daily Chronicle reported that the figure was as many as 2,500,https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Zp4SAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LPkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5334,4645565&dq=1875+c%C3%BAcuta+earthquake&hl=en Island Smashed-Toll in Quake Nearing 400 Spokane Daily Chronicle 14 December 1979 23 February 2010 while other sources say that the death toll was about 1,000.https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7418876.stm Earthquake rocks central Colombia BBC News 25 May 2008 23 February 2010https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/27/world/colombians-sift-rubble-as-earthquake-toll-rises.html?pagewanted=all Colombians Sift Rubble as Earthquake Toll Rises The New York Times 27 January 1999 23 February 2010 Early newspaper reports put the number at 8 to 10,000.https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1875/08/16/79089478.pdf The Earthquake in Cucuta The New York Times 16 August 1875 23 February 2010http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=DSC18750823.2.17 Earthquake and Volcanic Eruption in South America Daily Southern Cross 23 August 1875 23 February 2010 The Evening Post wrote that 5,000 died outright with a further 9,000 dying from the after effects such as fever and lockjaw.http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=EP18750830.2.19 The Earthquake of South America Evening Post 30 August 1875 23 February 2010 Affected areas The earthquake covered 5 degrees of Latitude and was 500 miles long.http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=ST18750913.2.15 The Earthquake of South America Southland Times 13 September 1875 23 February 2010 Populated areas affected were Villa of the Rosary, San Luis, Salazar, Woods of the Palms, Gramalote, Bochalema and San Faustino in Colombia. San Antonio, Capacho, San Cristóbal, the Mulata, Rubio, Michelena, La Grita, Colón in Venezuela. In addition it was also felt in Bogotá and Caracas. See also History of Colombia List of earthquakes in Colombia List of historical earthquakes References Further reading Sir Norman Lockyer Nature https://books.google.com/books?id=zh2VaMYqNYYC&pg=PA558 1877 Macmillan Journals Limited 558 collapsed expanded Category:Cúcuta Category:Earthquakes in Colombia Category:Earthquakes in Venezuela Cucuta Cucuta Cucuta Category:May 1875