Considered a country of high seismic risk, Colombia is a country that is located in the Pacific Ring of Firean area that concentrates 75% of the volcanoes that exist in the world and where approximately 80% of the volcanoes occur. strongest tremors worldwide.
Also called the Pacific Ring of Fire, it is made up of the mountainous area of western Argentina, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, the United States and Canada, and then turn around the Aleutian Islands and go down the coasts and islands of Russia, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, East Timor, Brunei, Singapore, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and New Zealand.
In the specific case of Colombia, the country is located in two important subduction areas, since, on the one hand, it has the Nazca plate with the South American and this last one that also collides with the Caribbean platewhich causes it to tremble constantly.
Given this situation, the departments of Nariño, Chocó, Caldas and Santander are the places where it trembles the most; In the latter is the municipality of Los Santos, considered the second most seismic area in the world.
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