Venezuela’s Twin Earthquakes: the Toll One Month Later
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Venezuela’s twin earthquakes: the toll one month later
One month after twin earthquakes struck Venezuela, the official death toll has surpassed 5,500, with 16,700 injured. Damage is estimated at $19.6 billion, while thousands remain homeless and the number of missing people has not been updated since late June.
One month after earthquakes in Venezuela
One month after twin earthquakes devastated northern Venezuela, recovery efforts continue in the hardest-hit coastal city of La Guaira, where volunteers and families are still searching for victims beneath the rubble. More than 5,300 people were killed
Lilibeth Maldonado, one of the victims who is in the camp located in the José María Vargas Sports Center in Maiquetía, after the double earthquake that struck La Guaira State on June 24, said this Monday, July 27, that it is not thought “to go again from La Guaira, despite this shock”, thus refusing to be relocated. In an interview with La Verdad de Vargas, the neighbor, who spent three years in a shelter in the spa of Catia La Mar after the 199…
“Everything around me collapsed, but nothing fell where I was standing,” recounts 24-year-old Emily Camargo. Her story is one of thousands in north-central Venezuela, where two earthquakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 shook the country on June 24. A month later—and after more than 1,500 aftershocks—
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