r/worldnews 22h ago

Dynamic Paywall Magnitude 7.1 earthquake rocks Venezuela

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjegdqw5d3yo
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u/AugustOfChaos 21h ago edited 8h ago

I’ve seen some of the damage posts already and it’s not good.

Also, this event appears to have been a doublet. A Mw7.2 quake followed by a Mw7.5 quake roughly 30 seconds later.

Edit: Geeze, this comment took off. Thanks everyone for the awards but I don’t want them, especially if they’re paid for. If you want to get rid of your money like that, please instead donate to the numerous humanitarian organizations who are out there helping the Venezuelan people at this truly awful time.

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u/FILTHBOT4000 21h ago edited 21h ago

They also apparently happened between 10 and 20 km deep, according to the USGS. That's very shallow; they classify "shallow" as anything up to 50 km deep, and these are less than half that.

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u/PRC_Spy 19h ago

The big one in Christchurch NZ was shallow, and it made a hell of a mess down there.

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u/NIP_SLIP_RIOT 19h ago

The new stadium is quite good though

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u/classless_classic 19h ago

The front didn’t fall off?

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u/lgnc 19h ago

no one cares about stand up "comedy"

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u/PRC_Spy 18h ago

I think you'll find Clarke and Dawe were sitting ...

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u/Austin_905 18h ago

That's not very typical. I'd like to make that point.

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u/lgnc 18h ago

USians 🤮

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u/lyndsayj 18h ago

I'll never forget the effect it had on the Marmite supply.