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Funvisis reports strong earthquake in Zulia

Funvisis reports strong earthquake in Zulia

On Tuesday night, a 4.2 magnitude earthquake was recorded with an epicenter 37 kilometers south of Maicao, within the northwestern territory of Venezuela.

So it reported a report from the Venezuelan Foundation for Seismological Research (Funvisis), detailing that the telluric event occurred at 9:43 pm and had a depth of 23.2 km.

Funvisis reports strong earthquake in Zulia
Funvisis reports strong earthquake in Zulia

Users on social networks reported having felt the earthquake mainly in the city of Maracaibo, this Zulia, with variable intensity.

At 5:25 pm today, a magnitude 4.0 earthquake was also recorded 70 km west of San Antonio del Táchira.

Funvisis recommends remaining calm in the face of events of this nature that are normal in Venezuela, since we live in a seismic country. We find ourselves in an important and complex geodynamic context due to the interaction between the Caribbean and South American plates, which causes seismic activity in the national territory.

The area of ​​greatest seismic activity in our country corresponds to a strip of about 100 km wide, defined along the mountain systems of the Andes, the Central Cordillera and the Eastern Cordillera, places where the main seismic systems are located. seismogenic faults of the country: Boconó, San Sebastián and El Pilar; to which are added other minor active systems such as Oca-Ancón, Valera, La Victoria and Urica, reports the seismological foundation’s website.



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