Professor Mark Allen, an Earth scientist at Durham University, highlighted the unusually short interval between two powerful earthquakes in Venezuela.
According to Oxu.Az citing CNN, the scientist expressed amazement that the tremors occurred so close in time given their magnitudes.
The expert suggests that the first quake ruptured one segment of a fault line, transferring stress to an adjacent segment and triggering the second event. Australian seismologist Adam Pascal noted that the second quake, which struck just 40 seconds later, was twice as strong as the first.
On the evening of June 24, two earthquakes of magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5 shook Venezuela. Their epicenters were located in Yaracuy state, about 10 km apart.
