Overview
- The quakes struck near San Felipe on Wednesday, June 24, occurring seconds apart and producing a shallow doublet that caused widespread building collapses across La Guaira, Caracas and nearby coastal towns.
- Venezuelan officials report at least 1,430 people killed and more than 3,200 injured, while counts of those unaccounted for vary widely and remain highly uncertain.
- Search‑and‑rescue crews pulled roughly 33 survivors from rubble over the weekend, but rescuers say the critical 72‑hour window for finding more live victims has largely passed because of continuing aftershocks and access limits.
- More than a thousand foreign rescuers and specialists from about two dozen countries are on the ground, with some runways at Simón Bolívar airport cleared for aid; the U.S. and EU have pledged major aid and Copernicus satellite mapping is guiding assessments.
- The United Nations has preliminarily estimated about $6.7 billion in physical damage and warned millions need urgent shelter, water and health care, a burden made worse by Venezuela’s degraded public services and logistical bottlenecks.