M 5.8 in Venezuela on 25 Sep 2025 06:55 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 1501969
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Glide number: EQ-2025-000175-VEN
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 9.894 , -70.6699
Event Date: 25 Sep 2025 06:55 UTC
25 Sep 2025 02:55 Local
Exposed Population: 3 thousand (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at: 25 Sep 2025 07:13 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.3 (Venezuela)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
us6000rcrj Scaled population (raster) 2.24  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.9  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),