Earthquakes in Venezuela, 2017–2026
From 2017 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 177 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in or off Venezuela. 3 of them reached magnitude 7 or more; the strongest was a magnitude 7.5 on June 24, 2026 (20 km W of Catia La Mar, Venezuela).
The last 30 days · as of
USGS recorded 2 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in the area the map frames in the last 30 days.
The latest: magnitude 4.8 on October 13 (0 km SW of Cepitá, Colombia). The strongest: magnitude 5 on October 2 (22 km SSE of Güiria, Venezuela).
What the record holds
The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 7.2 on June 24, 2026 (20 km E of San Felipe, Venezuela), for which NOAA records 6,509 deaths. 3 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 2 of the events here, 6,514 in all. NOAA lists 2 tsunamis that began in or off Venezuela. The highest of them reached 0.04 m, on June 24, 2026.
The events
- 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
- September 25, 2025Earthquake · M 6.325 km ENE of Mene Grande, VenezuelaUSGS
- September 24, 2025Earthquake · M 6.25 km ENE of Mene Grande, VenezuelaUSGS
- August 21, 2018Earthquake · M 7.340 km ENE of Carúpano, Venezuela · 5 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
Good to know
- An event counts for Venezuela when it began inside its borders, or at sea within 100 km of its coast (so one can count for two neighbours), or further out, up to 300 km, where Venezuela is the nearest country.
- USGS counts are its ComCat catalogue’s earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more, aftershocks included.
- 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.
- The map frames the box around Venezuela, its neighbours’ quakes included, so its count runs higher than this page’s.
- 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