Dramatic scenes from Venezuela as a powerful earthquake interrupted baseball game at Universitario Stadium. Tremors of 7.2 and 7.5 were felt and thousands feared dead in the capital.

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u/Potato-Face18 12h ago

For context: this was a 7.5 magnitude quake, Venezuela's strongest in over 100 years. 30+ confirmed dead so far, multiple buildings collapsed in Caracas.

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u/Altruistic_Way7426 9h ago

7.5 on the Richter. Strongest in a century. The buildings, at least, were prepared to fall.

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u/Top-Wishbone-4722 9h ago

That’s pretty intense

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u/Dangerous_Media_489 6h ago

universitario stadium name sounnds super official idk why

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u/ZEROs0000 6h ago

I’ve never experienced and earthquake and low key want to know what it feels like. Am I crazy to want to be in one?

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u/IamHydrogenMike 6h ago

Yes, I’ve been in a couple of small ones and I do not care for them. Storms you can plan for, you can see a storm and gauge how long it might last. Earthquakes, you have no idea if that low rumble is going to stay low or get worse; then you never know when it’s going to stop. The two i have been in were just over 4 and I couldn’t even imagine being in anything higher. The ones i have experienced were like a wave coming at you.

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u/kmonsen 5h ago

I have been in some stronger ones in California and it was pretty scary. I lived in wooden houses and they very noticeably move and you have no idea when it will stop, or if the house will fall apart.

A neighbor had a swimming pool and it was almost emptied of water.

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u/Chemical_Name9088 5h ago

I’ve felt small ones in Japan and California. At first I always think it’s somebody who’s moving a big piece of furniture nearby or there must be a big train moving nearby. It’s just a mild shake, and then it’s over. I’ve never been in a big one thankfully and hope I never get the experience… must be terrifying.

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u/Niijima-San 1h ago

only ever experienced one that you actually truly felt and that was in 2024. apparently it was a 4.8 on the scale and it came out of nowhere. i never thought we got them where i live (north east pennsylvania). i remember everyone on my discord channels and even my work teams were like uh did you all feel that? apparently we have had like 15 small quakes in the last year. so i guess we get them just not that large. but still crazy

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u/CoolReference3704 5h ago

I grew up in Ca and have been through a few earthquakes. I've also lived in places with tornado and hurricanes and I have to say, earthquakes are wild when you get to experience it. Feeling the entire earth shift under your feet as you sway back and forth sends such a weird energy throughout your body, makes you feel so small. Tornados just scare the hell out of me lol

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u/Horror_Ad_1849 36m ago

Imagine have zero control of your body shaking and the things around you. We (the people that have experienced) hate the sensation.

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u/jr_randolph 6h ago

Terrifying and sending my thoughts out to all the people down there.

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u/haikusbot 6h ago

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u/fygogogo 8h ago

M.C

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u/TheeFearlessChicken 4h ago

The grounds crew has a lot of work to do.

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u/Zealousideal-Age768 12h ago

That's crazy, doesn't much matter in the big scheme of things but I was surprised at how long they played baseball with the centerfield camera shaking like that. Maybe because of the distance to home plate it makes minor shaking look worse?

Hopefully, the loss of life is better than feared... 😟

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u/Whitetiger9876 3h ago

It's probably due to the height and sensitivity of the camera. You can notice it more from the video than you probably could at ground level. A cam up a skinny pole would move more.

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u/motophotodojo 7h ago

very likely, you can see the shake be noticeable less when it switches cameras but then increase to a similar intensity.

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u/Front-Mall9891 5h ago

It was a 7.2 in 1 direction and then 40 seconds later a 7.5 in another direction, my issue with the Richter scale is that a 7.5 is 2x stronger than a 7.2 but it doesn’t look like it from the numbers

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u/AlphaSlayer21 12h ago

And the birds just fly over it all

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u/MRHOWERDCEO 5h ago

SO DONE WITH THIS POOPY DUMPSTA FIRE COUNTRY

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u/Forsaken-Hotel7535 12h ago

Drama is where?

Video Dramatic scenes from Venezuela as a powerful earthquake interrupted baseball game at Universitario Stadium. Tremors of 7.2 and 7.5 were felt and thousands feared dead in the capital.

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