VENEZUELA: Tremor of strong magnitude, 7.3 on the Ritcher scale.

A normal day in Venezuela .. 08/21/18

The earth is still trembling a little everywhere. After the heavy clashes in Indonesia, Fiji and Molise in Italy, last night the earth shook in Venezuela, whose epicenter was located by the US Geological Survey (USGS), about twenty kilometers from the city of Yaguaraparo, 400 kilometers east of the city. Caracas capital, with a magnitude of the Richter scale of 7.3 degrees.

The earthquake was recorded at 05:31 pm local time and had a depth of 87 kilometers. Some buildings, including those in the capital, were evacuated as a precaution. After a first warning of tsunami risk, the alarm was canceled. The strong earthquake was clearly felt not only in Venezuela, but also in Colombia, Brazil and Trinidad and Tobago.

After the earthquake, some buildings and department stores suffered structural damage, however, so far there is no information of human losses. Up to now, the Civil Protection and 911 emergency numbers have been activated to report any contingency or request an infrastructure assessment. A total of 20,000 officials have been deployed throughout the national territory.

Below videos of the earthquake, courtesy @youtube

day 8/22/18 ..

A tremor of magnitude 5.7 was recorded on Wednesday in the same region of the 7.3 earthquake that occurred on Tuesday in Venezuela, without so far has been reported of victims or damage, reported the Venezuelan Foundation for Seismological Research (Funvisis).
The entity, attached to the Ministry of University Education, Science and Technology, located the epicenter of the earthquake 9 kilometers "northwest of Yaguaraparo", region where the quake was recorded on Tuesday, although this happened to the southeast.

The depth of the earthquake on Wednesday was 22.9 kilometers, Funvisis added on Twitter.
Twenty minutes later, the Interior Minister, Néstor Reverol, informed by the same social network that "a replica of magnitude 4.1 was registered", this time, in the south of that region, of the Sucre state, which is located in the northeast and the coast of Venezuela, with a depth of 59.3 kilometers.

Neighbors after the earthquake, in panic ..

The Venezuelans live in sosobra after the earthquake of great magnitude because according to scientists, replicas are expected so that the tectonic plates return to their place, already discarded the idea of a tsunami.

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