M 4.8 in Venezuela on 20 Jul 2026 10:55 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1553008
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 66 Km
Lat/Lon: 10.6707 , -62.2023
Event Date: 20 Jul 2026 10:55 UTC
20 Jul 2026 06:55 Local
Exposed Population:
70 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 20 Jul 2026 11:48 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.3 (Venezuela)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000t1x5 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Searching for closure: Venezuela families refuse to give up after quak.. 7/21/2026 2:23:00 PM.

La Guaira, Venezuela – For nearly three weeks, Ivan Chino has barely slept. Every morning, he returns to the ruins of his neighbourhood in La Guaira, in northern Venezuela, searching through mountains of shattered concrete left behind by de
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“Emergenza Venezuela”, Caltanissetta promuove la raccolta umanitaria 7/21/2026 2:23:00 PM.

Di fronte alla drammatica emergenza umanitaria scaturita dal tragico terremoto che ha colpito il Venezuela lo scorso 24 giugno — con un bilancio che ha ormai dolorosamente superato la quota delle 5.200 vittime — la città di Caltanissetta ri
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),