Maturín

Earthquakes near Maturín through history

From 1900 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 7 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Maturín, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. The strongest on either list was an estimated magnitude 8 on September 1, 1530 (Cumana).

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The last 30 days · as of

USGS recorded no earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more within 100 km of Maturín in the last 30 days.

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What the record holds

The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 7 on July 9, 1997 (26 km WSW of Carúpano, Venezuela), for which NOAA records 81 deaths. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 10 here, back to 1498. NOAA records deaths in 5 of the events here, 97 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 7.3 on August 21, 2018 (40 km ENE of Carúpano, Venezuela). NOAA’s record here begins on August 2, 1498 with an earthquake (Boca De La Sierpe). It grows thinner going back: 5 of the 10 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here are from 1927 on. NOAA lists one tsunami that began within 100 km of Maturín.

The events

  • August 21, 2018Earthquake · M 7.340 km ENE of Carúpano, Venezuela · 5 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • July 9, 1997Earthquake · M 7.026 km WSW of Carúpano, Venezuela · 81 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • October 21, 1766Earthquake · M 7.5 (est.)Cumana, San Juan Bautista; TrinidadNOAA NCEI
  • September 1, 1530Earthquake · M 8.0 (est.)Cumana · 4 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
  • August 2, 1498EarthquakeBoca De La SierpeNOAA NCEI
  • August 2, 1498TsunamiBoca De La SierpeNOAA NCEI

Good to know

  • An event counts for Maturín 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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