CARACAS_ Two strong earthquakes shook the Pacific this Wednesday just 39 seconds apart, in a seismic sequence whose main event was a magnitude 7.5 earthquake, the official United States tsunami warning system reported.
The authorities specified that the first earthquake, initially reported with a magnitude of 7.2, was reclassified as a precursor to the 7.5 earthquake, after the analysis of seismic records.
The United States National Tsunami Warning Center explained that both tremors formed a “seismic doublet”, a phenomenon in which two large-magnitude earthquakes occur a few seconds apart in the same area, so the official information was updated to identify the magnitude 7.5 earthquake as the main event.
The epicenter of the earthquake was located about 300 kilometers east of Caracas, the country’s capital, in the municipality of Montalbán, Carabobo state, in the central region of Venezuela.
The earthquake had a depth of 13.2 kilometers, so it was classified as a shallow earthquake, according to information from the USGS.
The last similar earthquake that occurred in Venezuela was in 2018, with a magnitude of 7.3 in the state of Sucre and affected at least ten countries in the region, including Brazil, Guyana and several Caribbean islands.
