{"id":8091,"date":"2026-06-25T14:14:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T06:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moresourcing.com\/2-major-earthquakes-strike-northern-venezuela-near-caracas\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T14:14:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T06:14:02","slug":"2-major-earthquakes-strike-northern-venezuela-near-caracas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moresourcing.com\/en\/2-major-earthquakes-strike-northern-venezuela-near-caracas\/","title":{"rendered":"2 major earthquakes strike northern Venezuela, near Caracas : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Two major, back-to-back earthquakes struck northern Venezuela on Wednesday, reducing buildings to rubble in the nearby capital of Caracas.<\/p>

An initial earthquake at about 6 p.m. Eastern time, a 7.2-magnitude foreshock, was followed less than a minute later by a 7.5-magnitude earthquake in the same area, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.<\/p>

The epicenters, which USGS estimated to be about 3 miles apart, were near the town of Mor\u00f3n on Venezuela’s Caribbean coast, some 100 miles west of Caracas.<\/p>

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“When the earthquakes are this close together” in time, said Paul Earle, a seismologist at USGS, “it can be difficult to unravel the exact magnitudes and the exact locations, especially for the second event,” due to the way the signals on seismograms overlap in these cases.<\/p>