Venezuela earthquakes death toll surpasses 5,000
Officials said recovery work and IMF funding are supporting reconstruction as 16,740 people remain injured and 17,907 are still without permanent housing.
- The death toll from Venezuela's twin earthquakes rose to 5,208 on Sunday, with officials reporting 89 additional fatalities since Saturday.
- On June 24 near Montalb, the USGS described the event as a doublet: a magnitude 7.2 earthquake followed 39 seconds later by a magnitude 7.5 quake.
- In Guaira, nearly 20,000 homeless people remain in makeshift camps after over 850 buildings were damaged and 190 collapsed completely.
- Venezuelan authorities recorded at least 1,388 aftershocks, while 128,324 families received assistance and injuries remain at 16,740, according to Jorge Rodriguez, legislature president.
- This disaster ranks behind the magnitude 7.7 earthquake that struck central Myanmar in March 2025, which killed more than 5,400 people in Myanmar and Thailand.
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More than three weeks after the double earthquake in northern Venezuela, the authorities report a new interim assessment as research continues in the rubble.
The double earthquake of 24 June in Venezuela killed 5,208 people, according to a new provisional assessment published on Sunday by the President of the Parliament Jorge Rodriguez. ...
This Sunday, the authorities reported that the number of deaths reached 5,208, with 89 new deaths. The President of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, said ... Continue reading "Up to 5,208 deaths due to a double earthquake in Venezuela: 1,388 deaths due to a double earthquake are recorded" The post Up to 5,208 deaths due to a double earthquake in Venezuela: 1,388 replies have already been registered appeared first on BioBioChile.
According to a more recent, but provisional, official report by Venezuelan authorities, the death toll from the double earthquake of 7.2 and 7.5 on the Richter scale has risen to 5,208. The post Venezuela: At least 5,208 dead from the double earthquake, according to a more recent report appeared first on in.gr.
The death toll from the earthquake in Venezuela has risen to over 4,900. No one has been pulled alive from the rubble for a long time. Thousands of people are still missing.
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