Tag: la guaira

• Sunday, June 28th 2026 - 20:51 UTC

  Why Venezuela's earthquake was so deadly: shallow, powerful and just seconds apart

  

  The combination of two powerful, very shallow earthquakes just 39 seconds apart explains much of the devastation left by Wednesday's earthquake in north-central Venezuela, where the latest official toll exceeds 1,450 dead and 3,150 injured. The satellite images that have gradually emerged confirm a trail of collapsed buildings along the coast, the most densely populated and hardest-hit area.

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• Sunday, June 28th 2026 - 20:31 UTC

  Collapsed hospitals and morgues raise health fears in Venezuela's earthquake zone

  

  The emergency caused by the twin earthquake that struck north-central Venezuela on Wednesday is beginning to turn into a health risk, given the bodies that remain under the rubble and the collapse of hospitals and morgues in the worst-hit areas, particularly the coastal state of La Guaira. Authorities this weekend raised the toll to at least 1,450 dead and some 3,150 injured, a figure they warned would keep rising.

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