US EditionEarthquake Today in Venezuela and Colombia: Time and Where Was the Epicenter of the Last Earthquake on Thursday, September 25 via Usgs
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The first reports indicate that the strongest movement occurred at 10:51 p.m., with a magnitude of 6.3 and a surface depth of just 10 kilometers. Its epicenter was located in Mene Grande, Zulia state. However, it was not the only one. Minutes earlier, at 9:42 p.m., there had been another tremor of 5.3, and in the afternoon there had already been shocks of 6.1 and 4.7. Faced with the concern of a possible emergency in the Colombian Caribbean, the…
The last recorded telluric movement was felt this Thursday, September 25.
The origin of the tremors in Venezuela and Colombia is the contact between the Caribbean plate and the South American plate. That limit is, to a large extent, of lateral tearing, but it includes compressive and transtensive segments. The deformation accumulated by the relative movement is released in breaks of faults, generating earthquakes that feel from the Venezuelan west to the north and the Colombian Caribbean. In Venezuela, the seismicity …
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