According to the agency, about twenty seismic events ranging from 2.1 to 3.6 degrees of Richter scale were reported in the last five hours alone.

There were eight shakings between 4:00 and 5:00 ( local time), reported by Fuvisis.

Most of them were reported in La Guaira and they affected Naiguatá and a church in Vargas municipality which belong to the same state.

The aftershocks ocurred after two earthquakes which shook the central region of Venezuela yesterday , mainly Carabobo state but it damaged several zones in the country.

The first earthquake of magnitude 7,2 had its epicenter in Moron in the municipality of Juan Jose Mora and the second one which ocurred 39 seconds after, was recorded in the Montalban municipality.

According to experts, earthquakes occur constantly in Venezuela because it is located at the collision boundary between two major tectonic plates: the Caribbean Plate and the South American Plate.

This contact, they note, creates a system of fractures in the Earth’s crust known as geological faults which accumulate energy that is suddenly released in the form of an earthquake.

Before yesterday’s earthquakes , the strongest one was on August 21, 2018.

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