A third earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 strikes the vicinity of the Aragua region in Venezuela

The European Mediterranean Seismological Center announced the recording of a new earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale, which struck off the coast of the state of Aragua in Venezuela, without immediate reports of casualties or new material damage.

The third earthquake comes at a very critical time for the country, after two successive devastating earthquakes with a magnitude of 7.2 and 7.5 struck the capital, Caracas, and the surrounding states a few days ago (on June 24), and were classified as Venezuela’s deadliest seismic disasters in more than a century.