Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
As the death toll because of the two powerful earthquakes in Venezuela approaches 1000, the subject of Earth’s plate tectonics once again has come under focus. One of the striking features of the Venezuelan twin quakes is that they were both of magnitudes higher than 7 at 7.5 and 7.2 on the Richter scale occurring so close to one another in time and space, one minute and five kilometers apart.
As the death toll because of the two powerful earthquakes in Venezuela approaches 1000, the subject of Earth’s plate tectonics once again has come under focus. One of the striking features of the Venezuelan twin quakes is that they were both of magnitudes higher than 7 at 7.5 and 7.2 on the Richter scale occurring so close to one another in time and space, one minute and five kilometers apart.
