The devastating twin Venezuelan earthquakes may have in actuality been a highly unusual single larger magnitude earthquake. Whether a M7.6 earthquake struck or a M7.2 & M7.5 quakes struck is up for debate, which today's video will discuss. Thumbnail Photo Credit: Google Earth, Image Landsat / Copernicus, Data SIO, NOAA, U.S. Navy, NGA, GEBCO. This image was overlaid with text, and then overlaid with GeologyHub made graphics (the image border & the GeologyHub logo). A special thanks to the EarthquakeSim YouTube channel for granting me permission to use clips of his footage! Video Sources from the EarthquakeSim YouTube channel: [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6AlM-GT8nM [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjpQryJnHTc Subscribe to EarthquakeSim at: https://www.youtube.com/@EarthquakeSim Fault plane slip amounts and extent sourced from the U.S. Geological Survey. If you would like to support this channel, consider using one of the following links: (Patreon: http://patreon.com/geologyhub) (YouTube membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYeGh5VML5XPr5jYnzh3J6g/join) (Gemstone & Mineral Etsy store: http://prospectingarizona.etsy.com) (GeologyHub Merch Etsy store: http://geologyhub.etsy.com) Google Earth imagery used in this video: ©Google & Data Providers This video is protected under "fair use". If you see an image and/or video which is your own in this video, and/or think my discussion of a scientific paper (and/or discussion/mentioning of the data/information within a scientific paper) does not fall under the fair use doctrine, and wish for it to be censored or removed, contact me by email at [email protected] and I will make the necessary changes. Various licenses used in sections of this video (not the entire video, this video as a whole does not completely fall under one of these licenses) and/or in this video's thumbnail image (and this list does not include every license used in this video and/or thumbnail image): Public Domain: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode Sources/Citations: [1] U.S. Geological Survey [2] Papán, D.; Brozová, E.; Papánová, Z. Experimental Simulation of Deformation Effect Propagation Due to Explosion on the Surface of a Small-Scale Model. Buildings 2023, 13, 1566. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13061566, CC BY 4.0. 0:00 Venezuela Earthquakes 1:02 Fault Rupture 2:43 MMI Intensity 3:12 1 or 2 Earthquakes 4:26 Liquefaction