Earthquakes near Tinaquillo through history

It was also the deadliest: NOAA records 26,000 deaths for it. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 4 here, back to 1812. NOAA records deaths in 2 of the events here, 32,509 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 7.2 on June 24, 2026 (20 km E of San Felipe, Venezuela). NOAA’s record here begins on March 26, 1812 with an earthquake (La Guaira). NOAA lists 2 tsunamis that began within 100 km of Tinaquillo. The highest of them reached 0.04 m, on June 24, 2026.

• June 24, 2026Earthquake · M 7.520 km W of Catia La Mar, VenezuelaUSGS
• June 24, 2026Earthquake · M 7.220 km E of San Felipe, Venezuela · 6,509 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• June 24, 2026Tsunami · 0.04 m highNorthwest VenezuelaNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• March 26, 1812Earthquake · M 7.7 (est.)La Guaira · 26,000 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia

• An event counts for Tinaquillo 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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