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To every New Yorker with family in Venezuela: we are holding you close.
The devastating earthquakes this week have claimed hundreds of lives and left thousands more searching for loved ones.
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Venezuela just experienced something that statistically should not happen: two of the four largest earthquakes in its recorded history, 39 seconds apart.
In over a century of records, the biggest quake the country ever logged was a 7.7 in 1900. Wednesday's 7.5 now ranks second all-time. The 7.2 that struck 39 seconds before it ranks around fourth. Same fault, same minute.
That gap is what turned it catastrophic. A building doesn't reset between shocks. The first cracks the structure, shifts load paths, loosens connections. The second lands on a frame that's already compromised. A structure that rides out a single 7.5 can come down under a 7.2 followed by a 7.5. The damage compounds in a way neither quake does alone.
The stacked energy is also why it reached so far. Shaking was felt into Colombia and reportedly as far as Brazil's Amazon, over 1,000 miles out.
A country's second- and fourth-biggest earthquakes ever, 39 seconds apart. Most fault systems don't do that in 10,000 years.