Trauma Lingers After Venezuela Quakes
GRUV volunteer teams have rescued 21 people alive and recovered 56 bodies as families keep searching for missing loved ones.
- Two months after the June 24 twin earthquakes killed more than 6,500 people in Venezuela, volunteer rescuer Domingo Pacheco continues recovery operations in the devastated coastal state of La Guaira.
- Magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 tremors struck on June 24, destroying residential complexes and displacing thousands of residents who now live in makeshift camps north of Caracas.
- Pacheco, a 53-year-old volunteer with the Unified Rescue Group of Venezuela , has recovered 56 bodies and rescued 21 people alive since arriving in the region.
- Survivor Robert Torres, who lost nine family members including his 8-year-old granddaughter, joined volunteer teams to assist in recovering remains from the rubble.
- Witnessing the determination of families waiting for closure has "profoundly impacted" Pacheco, who vowed to continue searching "as long as the body allows.
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Two months have passed since a double earthquake shook Venezuela and the work of Domingo Pacheco, a volunteer rescuer who arrived in the disaster zone from day one, is far from over. On June 24, two earthquakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5, with 39 seconds of difference between each, caused one of the most devastating catastrophes in Venezuela’s recent history with about 6,500 dead and an indeterminate number of missing people. Volunteer work leaves…
EFE This 24 August 2026 marks exactly two months of the seismic doubling that shook northern Venezuela on June 24. Two earthquakes of 7.2 magnitude and 7.5, separated by just 39 seconds, with epicenters in the Yaracuy area and the coast of La Guaira, generated the worst natural catastrophe in the country in more than a century. What remained is not only a landscape of ruins, but also the portrait of a State with limited capacity to respond to th…
Humanitarian and government assistance deployment has been ongoing since the early hours of the disaster.
Juan José Moras was the municipality of the state Carabobo most affected, here were counted 565 houses with partial or total collapse of its structure.
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