Maria Elise, another Palos Grandes resident, says the tremors cracked some walls in her apartment.
“There are fallen utility poles [outside], we have no electricity, no signal,” Elise tells BBC Mundo.
This is not the first time the Venezuelan capital has been hit by a major earthquake.
In 1967, a 6.6-magnitude quake struck Caracas and killed more than 200 people, destroying buildings in Palos Grandes and the upper-class area of Altamira.
But the ones today felt worse, according to some residents who had experienced the 1967 quake.
“There was a very loud crash. Things fell in the house, jugs inside the refrigerator. I’ve never experienced anything like it,” Coro Martinez, a 56-year-old resident in eastern Caracas, told Reuters news agency.
Eighty-year-old pensioner Maria Romero said: “This earthquake was horrible, even worse than the one in 1967.”
