Two powerful earthquake pulses struck Venezuela on June 24, 2026, just 39 seconds apart, collapsing buildings across northern Venezuela and killing more than 900 people, according to government officials. The first jolt registered magnitude 7.2 and the second magnitude 7.5, with an epicenter near Morón, about 104 miles west of Caracas, at a depth of 8 miles, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. At least 4,300 people were injured, and on one independent monitoring platform the number of missing topped 50,000 overnight, according to news reports. [1] [2]
University of Southern California geophysicist Sylvain Barbot said scientists are still analyzing data to determine whether the two pulses represent separate earthquakes or a single rupture along a very long fault. The events could be a doublet, similar to the two magnitude-7-plus earthquakes that struck Turkey in 2023 within eight hours, Barbot said. However, because the Venezuela pulses were only seconds apart, they could also be a single rupture that broke different segments of a long fault, creating the appearance of two events. Venezuela sits on a transform fault boundary between the South American and Caribbean plates, which slide past each other at about 0.8 inches per year, Barbot added.
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