The epicenters, which USGS estimated to be about 3 miles apart, were near the town of Morón on Venezuela‘s Caribbean coast, some 100 miles west of Caracas.

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„This doesn‘t happen very often,“ Earle said. „When they‘re right together it‘s hard to understand what would happen.“

The strongest of the „doublet,“ as the USGS described the twin quakes, is the largest earthquake to strike Venezuela since 1900, when a 7.7-magnitude quake hit the country, according to USGS.