Magnitude 3.5 earthquake occurred at 12:08 PM on Saturday in Sucre state, eastern Venezuela.
Epicenter located 13 km west of Irapa, depth 22.6 km.
Data provided by Funvisis (Venezuelan Foundation for Seismological Research).
The El Pilar fault has documented light to moderate earthquakes.
Source ecology
La Patilla · exile media · reliability C
Strongly anti-Maduro, opposition-aligned — Alberto Federico Ravell
- Clickbait tendencies
- Mixes opinion with news frequently
- Can amplify unverified rumors
The claims, made testable
- asserted — check unavailable Magnitude 3.5 earthquake occurred at 12:08 PM on Saturday in Sucre state, eastern Venezuela. (evidence: not measured)
- asserted — check unavailable Epicenter located 13 km west of Irapa, depth 22.6 km. (evidence: not measured)
- asserted — check unavailable Data provided by Funvisis (Venezuelan Foundation for Seismological Research). (evidence: not measured)
Pattern: 726 related Venezuela signals in the last 30 days on Earthquake, Seismology, Natural disaster.
What would change the assessment
- Magnitude 3.5 earthquake occurred at 12:08 PM on Saturday in Sucre state, eastern Venezuela.
- Epicenter located 13 km west of Irapa, depth 22.6 km.
- Data provided by Funvisis (Venezuelan Foundation for Seismological Research).
- The El Pilar fault has documented light to moderate earthquakes.
- Experts call for calm.
Grounded analysis — deterministic intelligence + AI synthesis anchored to real signals (deterministic + anchored gemma4:e2b). No fact is asserted that the sources do not support.
What the sources establish
The source makes the assertions summarized above; VeraVadis has not yet found independent corroboration in its corpus.
Actors named in sources
Funvisis · Irapa · Sucre · El Pilar fault
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What's still unverified
- Everything above is one outlet's account; none of it has been independently corroborated yet.
AI-assisted synthesis anchored to a real VeraVadis-analyzed source. Cleared by VeraVadis's automated editorial gates on 2026-09-16 — not reviewed by a human editor. Archive piece: published under our earlier method. It does not carry the per-claim evidence chain — who reported it first and who is echoing whom — that our current pieces carry. The source link and the date are the original ones.
