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Are these earthquakes, which occurred within hours of one another but thousands of kilometers apart, related?
On Thursday, June 25 (Manila time), a few minutes after 6 am, two powerful earthquakes, each with a magnitude above 7.0 and focal depths shallower than 20 kilometers, struck the South American nation of Venezuela just 40 seconds apart.
The epicenters were on land near the town of Yumare, about 200 kilometers west of the capital, Caracas.
Less than 30 minutes later, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck Japan on the opposite side of the Pacific, with its epicenter offshore near the coast of northern Honshu.
