Earthquakes near Carora through history

It was also the deadliest: NOAA records 6,509 deaths for it. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 10 here, back to 1870. NOAA records deaths in 5 of the events here, 6,616 in all. NOAA’s record here begins on June 26, 1870 with an earthquake (El Tocuyo). 3 of the 10 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here came before 1927. NOAA lists one tsunami that began within 100 km of Carora.

• June 24, 2026Earthquake · M 7.220 km E of San Felipe, Venezuela · 6,509 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• August 3, 1950Earthquake · M 6.48 km SSW of El Tocuyo, Venezuela · 100 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
• August 3, 1950TsunamiEl TocuyoNOAA NCEI
• June 26, 1870EarthquakeEl Tocuyo · 3 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI

• An event counts for Carora when it began within 100 km of its centre, or 200 km for an earthquake of magnitude 7 or more. Damage can reach further.
• USGS counts here start at magnitude 6: the catalogue’s smaller quakes thin out going back, where few instruments listened.
• NOAA lists significant events only: earthquakes that killed, did about $1 million of damage, reached magnitude 7.5 or intensity X, or raised a tsunami, and eruptions and tsunamis by like measures. Magnitudes before 1900 are its estimates from written accounts.
• Deaths are NOAA’s total for each event, wherever people died, its tsunami and fires included. A tsunami counts the dead its runup records give for this place: NOAA’s total for a tsunami includes its source quake’s.
• A tsunami from elsewhere counts where one of its runups killed or rose a metre or more.
• Counted to October 19, 2026, as is the map. The last 30 days ask USGS again.

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