{"id":60406,"date":"2026-06-24T21:10:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T01:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/venezuela-shaken-by-magnitude-7-5-and-7-2-earthquakes\/24\/06\/2026\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T21:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T01:10:06","slug":"venezuela-shaken-by-magnitude-7-5-and-7-2-earthquakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/venezuela-shaken-by-magnitude-7-5-and-7-2-earthquakes\/24\/06\/2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela shaken by magnitude 7.5 and 7.2 earthquakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela within less than a minute on Wednesday evening, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, shaking the capital Caracas and causing damage in several areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The USGS measured the quakes at magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5, putting them among the strongest seismic events globally so far this year. The second and stronger quake struck at a shallow depth of around 10 kilometres, increasing the risk of significant damage and possible casualties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tremors were felt in Caracas, where videos circulating on social media showed damaged buildings, with damage also reported at the city&#8217;s airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We are dealing with an extremely alarming situation,&#8221; Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said on television, adding that some buildings had collapsed and urging residents to take shelter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He warned that aftershocks were likely and could cause further structural failures in already damaged buildings. Officials also ordered gas supplies to be shut off as a precaution to prevent explosions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The epicentre of the first quake, which hit at 6:04 pm (2204 GMT), was located 24 kilometres east of San Felipe in north-western Venezuela at a depth of 21.9 kilometres, according to USGS data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The second, stronger quake struck just a few kilometres further north. More than 400,000 people live in the nearby cities of Puerto Cabello and San Felipe, according to the USGS.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/world\/articles\/venezuela-shaken-magnitude-7-5-004136536.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela within less than a minute on Wednesday evening, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, shaking the capital<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/venezuela-shaken-by-magnitude-7-5-and-7-2-earthquakes\/24\/06\/2026\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/VqzjK2iHJfUbfcVGy2kLJA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyMDA7aD03Njk7Y2Y9d2VicA--\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/dpa_international_526\/65e183e74f647e214be47b6731d285e5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}