Venezuela shaken by magnitude 4.9 tremor days after major earthquakes
Key takeaways
- The South American country is still reeling from devastating pair of earthquakes that killed hundreds of people earlier this week.
- The tremor on Friday comes days after a pair of powerful earthquakes struck the country on Wednesday evening, killing at least 920 people and leaving parts of the capital of Caracas devastated.
- The earthquake tracker organisation EMSC said in a social media post that the latest earthquake took place 61 kilometres (36 miles) northwest of Maracay in northern Venezuela.
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The South American country is still reeling from devastating pair of earthquakes that killed hundreds of people earlier this week.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Rescuers sift through a collapsed building in Caracas, Venezuela, on June 26 [Edilzon Gamez/Getty Images]By Al Jazeera Staff, AFP and Reuters Published On 26 Jun 202626 Jun 2026A new earthquake has been detected off the northern coast of Venezuela, registering as magnitude 4.9 on the Richter scale.
The tremor on Friday comes days after a pair of powerful earthquakes struck the country on Wednesday evening, killing at least 920 people and leaving parts of the capital of Caracas devastated.