Quake hits Venezuela

As if the massive 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti this week wasn’t enough, another tremor struck in the Americas today:

A 5.6 magnitude earthquake hit Venezuela near the small Caribbean coastal town of Carupano, the United States Geological Survey said on Friday.

The quake, at a relatively shallow depth of 7.3 miles (12 km), was centered about 24 miles (39 km) southwest of Carupano and was felt in Puerto La Cruz, where state oil company PDVSA has a refinery.

PDVSA said it had no immediate reports of damage.

The epicenter of the earthquake was about 235 miles away from the Venezuelan capital of Caracas. Furthermore, the country’s head of seismology reported that the tremor was felt in several eastern provinces.

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Online Sources- Canadian Press, Reuters, The Latin Americanist, CNN