Posted on 06/25/2026 9:37:58 AM PDT by Morgana
Harrowing footage has revealed the extent of the damage and chaos inflicted on Venezuela by a pair of massive earthquakes last night.
The back-to-back 7.1 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes struck near the coast, sending terrified residents racing out from swaying apartment blocks as walls collapsed and clouds of dust rose over the capital.
'High casualties and extensive damage are probable and the disaster is likely widespread,' the US Geological Survey said, 'with an initial death toll estimate likely between 10,000 and 100,000.'
On Thursday, Venezuelan authorities said at least 164 people had been killed, while hundreds more have been injured.
The quakes are among the strongest to strike Venezuela in more than a century, although strong earthquakes are unusual in the country.
In one particularly shocking video, a building's façade collapsed on a busy street, forcing people to flee in terror.
Venezuelan citizens were heard screaming in terror, and seen running for their lives, catching each other if they fell down.
A huge wave of dust and debris was kicked up, seemingly blinding those on the street.
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Terrible sights from the air in La Guira, Venezuela dozens of buildings collapsed and damaged After Earthquake
https://rumble.com/v7bt6a2-terrible-sights-from-the-air-in-la-guira-venezuela-dozens-of-buildings-coll.html
Maduro doesn’t have a voodoo doll shaped like Venezuela in his cell I hope.
Thanks for posting.
Just horrible, they have been through so much and now this. Praying for everyone involved
Like so much of the world, it is infrastructure built on get by concrete construction without code. Most of the buildings not destroyed should be as their damage is likely so severe they are unsafe.
Venezuela was one of the most wonderful places I worked. Hotel Tamanaco in Caracas was where I lived most of the time when I was there.
Earthquakes don’t kill people, buildings kill people.
Even given that, a surprising number of high-rises are still standing, they've shed their outer walls and windows but the cores held.
Unsafe, but survivable during the quake.
The worst failures were total buildings falling over to one side.
It looks like most of the smaller (older?) buildings up to four and five floors came through without massive damage. The midrise buildings did get hammered, but not all of them. I wonder if it will turn out to be buildings from a specific time period that collapsed. But I have no idea how building codes have changed in Venezuela.
Obviously living in tepees and stick huts with thatched roofs is a wise choice. We have been underestimated aboriginals and sub-Saharan Africa ....
That is post-apocalyptic...
I suspect it has to do with period, rigidity and that taller buildings may have more engineering in them and more steel reinforcement. Mid rise tend to be just more blocks stacked up. Shorter structures would have less inertia suggesting the whole building moved as the earth moved instead of taller ones where the base moved and the top did not move in concert.
The whole subject of structure survival is well studied and documented of course but not always well followed. I see that Hotel Tamanaco, built in 1953 and designed by a US firm survived and is in use for emergency services. As I recall, n the dimming of my memory, it Tamanaco survived other earth quakes that have happened there with one in ‘67 being fairly large.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Venezuela
I’m sure that the democrats will shortly rename it...
Trumps Fault.
Because drilling in the area triggered earthquakes.
“Apocalyptic scenes, terrifying airport collapse and citizens cheating death”
But is there algae?
We lived down the hill in La Hacienda when we first arrived, then in Prados Del Este. The video from La Guaira is devastating.
Well, back in Alaska, the ground opened up and swollowed up stuff.
(from memory) A car. Maybe it just arrived home with occupants in it and then it closed back up.
That was not a building.
OK Alaska was a 9.2.
The aftermath of the earthquake will kill people. Lack of water, supplies, food, outbreaks of disease, mobs of looting, etc.
There is also a report of a woman falling into a crack opened during a Japanese earthquake, and the crack flexing shut on her.
Overall the earth itself doesn’t kill many people. Maybe a dozen or so in all of recorded history?
As you noted the aftermath is a huge contributor to fatalities.
Macuto I assume affected as well
The Caribbean side of the mountains as you descend from Caracas to the beaches and airport
I’m familiar with that area as well
Looks very bad
Since they are now a satellite state I assume we’ll help bigly
The epicenter was more than 100 miles from Caracas. Of course there are several large population centers in that distance. Only Caracas and La Guira areas have been reported on. Two of the other four largest cities in Venezuela are located within the quake affected area.
I never made it West of Caracas. All of our work was clear on the East side of the country. It is a nation of extremes from swamp to mountains to savanna and forest.
Shell Oil made a good welcome documentary in the 50’s about their area of operations around Maracaibo.
Here’s hoping that we make a deep impression on the kids that the US is a great friend as well as a formidable foe.
Looks like a scene from that last POS Superman movie.
Waste of cellulose.
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