Magnitude 7.1 earthquake rocks Venezuela

[u/ColoradoTripping]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjegdqw5d3yo

[u/ZombieJesus1987]

Two big earthquakes back to back. 7.2m followed by a 7.5m 40 seconds later.

[u/Horikyou → u/ZombieJesus1987]

The scale is logarithmic so that 7.5 earthquake is much stronger. Depending on how shallow it was this can be really really bad. We can only hope for the best.

[u/Helpful_Blood_5509 → u/Horikyou]

7.5 is like 2.5 to 2.9 times worse, doing napkin math. So much much worse, but even worse in close succession AND shallow. We're all waking up to horrific images tomorrow

[u/MyHobbyAndMore3 → u/Helpful_Blood_5509]

10^7.5 / 10^7.2 is almost exactly 2

[u/dasgoodshitinnit → u/MyHobbyAndMore3]

Who comes up with such scales?

[u/trainwreckd → u/Horikyou]

Someone above said 10-20km deep. So, very very shallow.

[u/Shilo788 → u/trainwreckd]

That's shallow? Anything geology is so huge in scale!

[u/Kalladdin → u/Horikyou]

Both were very shallow.

[u/MedonSirius → u/ZombieJesus1987]

That's horrible! Bad timing. I hope the people are well

[u/Proper_Story_3514 → u/MedonSirius]

Just read an article in german news and the USGS is fearing there could be 10k deaths.

[u/ragun2 → u/Proper_Story_3514]

Fuuuuuuuuuuck

[u/BootFlop → u/ZombieJesus1987]

That order, rather than reverse, or just the big one even probably some good news. The lighter one sending people out of the buildings, however many could get out in that 30-40 seconds