UPDATE: 6,400 people have been rescued
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The keys Generated with AI The death toll from the earthquakes in Venezuela amounts to 1,943 and the injured exceed 10,500. More than 6,400 people have been rescued from the rubble and almost 81,000 families have received care. 689 aftershocks have been recorded and nearly 59,000 buildings have been damaged or destroyed. More than 3,300 rescuers from 27 countries are collaborating in the search for survivors, while more than 42,000 people remain without contact with their families. The death toll from the double earthquake last Wednesday in the northern part of Venezuela has risen to 1,943, while the injured are already 10,571, as reported this Tuesday by the president of the Venezuelan Parliament, Jorge Rodríguez. The balance of victims this Tuesday adds 224 deaths to those reported last Monday, while the number of injured rises by more than 5,000 in 24 hours. In addition, he detailed that a total of 6,461 people have been rescued after being trapped under the rubble. A total of 80,870 families have been assisted, while in the disaster zone there are 3,660 foreign rescuers, 148 dogs, 49 support vehicles and 26,121 Venezuelan troops, Rodríguez noted. Likewise, 15,467 people have registered as volunteers in rescue efforts. Rodríguez has not reported the number of missing people, at a time when several organizations register this number and have established support networks to locate relatives. Opposition leader María Corina Machado promotes a website developed by technicians and civil society so that people can report their missing relatives. So far, the platform registers 42,664 people who have not yet established contact with their loved ones. In the first moments of the emergency, between 13,400 and 13,500 people managed to get out on their own or with the help of their families in the disaster zone, as detailed by the brother of the president in charge, Delcy Rodríguez. “We have to keep incessantly searching for people alive. We have to keep hoping to continue finding people alive under the rubble,” he asked. In this context, he detailed that 855 buildings were damaged throughout Venezuela, of which 189 “collapsed completely.” In addition, he said, it is estimated that approximately 30,000 people, including visitors and residents, were in the areas of Caraballeda and Catia La Mar, in La Guaira, in the area most affected by the tremors. After the earthquakes last Wednesday, 689 aftershocks have been recorded, explained the President of Parliament. More than 3,300 rescuers sent from 27 countries, coordinated by the UN, are in Venezuela to support the search for survivors under the rubble, as reported today by Delcy Rodríguez. Wednesday’s double earthquake is the deadliest that Venezuela has experienced in the last century. Fifty-nine years earlier, in July 1967, an earthquake occurred near Caracas in which 245 people died, thousands were injured and the material damage was extensive. Last week’s earthquakes affected Caracas and six other states in the north of the country. The most affected region has been La Guaira, a coastal area that already experienced a tragedy due to a landslide in 1999 that left thousands dead. A first rapid experimental evaluation carried out by the US space agency NASA thanks to satellite images indicates that the double earthquake could have left some 58,870 buildings damaged or destroyed throughout the affected region.
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Source: This article was originally published by El Español – Home and adapted for our international English-speaking audience.
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