A big earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 hit the western and northern areas of Venezuela, together with the capital metropolis Caracas, on Wednesday night (September 24, 2025). The quake, which occurred at round 6:21 p.m. native time, produced sturdy actions over a broad area, sending alarm to main cities.
EQ of M: 6.2, On: 25/09/2025 03:51:55 IST, Lat: 9.87 N, Lengthy: 70.82 W, Depth: 10 Km, Location: Venezuela.
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Epicenter Shut To Oil City; Shallow Depth Described
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) stated the quake had its epicenter at a depth of solely 7.8 kilometers (4.8 miles), roughly 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Mene Grande, an oil city in Zulia state, which is sparsely populated.
The occasion’s shallow nature contributed to the intensive shaking. The quake was additionally very strongly felt within the nation’s largest metropolis, Maracaibo, and stories indicated that the shaking was felt so far as neighboring Colombia and Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire islands within the Caribbean. The Colombian Geological Survey measured the quake independently as 6.1 in magnitude.
Authorities Experiences “No Vital Injury”
Though it was the heavy shaking that made buildings rock and folks scurry onto the streets in cities akin to Caracas and Maracaibo, there have been no fast stories of great injury or fatalities.
Inside Minister Diosdado Cabello advised state tv that the earthquake was “with out vital structural injury.” Venezuela’s seismological establishment, nonetheless, recorded a lesser magnitude of 5.4 for the earthquake.
The USGS estimated that the earthquake might doubtlessly trigger a big effect with a possible demise toll of 10 to 100 people and critical structural injury. There was an estimated sturdy to very sturdy shaking felt by about 230,000 people in shut proximity to the epicenter.
Robust earthquakes are uncommon within the historical past of Venezuela. Whereas roughly 80 % of the inhabitants resides in seismic areas, Venezuela has not seen a major deadly incidence since 1997, when the earthquake in Cariaco took 73 lives. A way more damaging quake in 1976 claimed virtually 300 lives in Caracas.
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