Meanwhile, the latest mainstream media are reporting only 1430 people dead (see preceding headline screenshot).  It’s noteworthy that both earthquakes transpired at 6:05 PM in rapid succession when most folks were at home in their apartment building and homes, which were not built to withstand a 7.2 megaquake immediately followed by an even more powerful 7.5.   Moreover, the stretch of coastline from the epicenter to Caracas is both highly built-up and therefore heavily populated (see graphic below).

It’s also noteworthy that two massive earthquake virtually never occur 39 seconds apart where the second one registers much greater on the Richter Scale than the first one.  And to add even more power to the double punch, both tremors were unusually shallow at only 6 to 14 miles deep, which are always much more destructive than the much more common deeper earthquakes. [Read More]