How Sentinel-1 Measured Movement of Venezuela Quakes

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Imagine that you can accurately measure how the soil of an entire region moved without having to be there. That’s exactly what the Sentinel-1 satellites of the European Space Agency’s Copernicus (ESA) program achieved in the wake of the devastating earthquakes that shook northern Venezuela on June 24, 2026. What happened and what did the satellites measure? More than a month after the earthquakes (one of 7.2 magnitude and another of 7.5), the up…