Earthquakes near Coro through history

It was also the deadliest: NOAA records 6,509 deaths for it. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 4 here, back to 1955. NOAA records deaths in 2 of the events here, 6,510 in all. NOAA’s record here begins on January 18, 1955 with an earthquake (Off The Coast Near La Vela). NOAA lists 2 tsunamis that began within 100 km of Coro.

• June 24, 2026Earthquake · M 7.220 km E of San Felipe, Venezuela · 6,509 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• September 19, 1966Earthquake · M 5.0NOAA NCEI
• January 18, 1955EarthquakeOff The Coast Near La VelaNOAA NCEI
• January 18, 1955TsunamiOff The Coast Near La VelaNOAA NCEI

• An event counts for Coro 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.

How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Earthquakes, live, The world through history