{"id":51069,"date":"2026-07-11T11:55:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T06:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=51069"},"modified":"2026-07-11T11:55:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T06:10:21","slug":"death-toll-in-venezuela-quakes-rises-past-4000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/death-toll-in-venezuela-quakes-rises-past-4000\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll in Venezuela quakes rises past 4,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The death toll in Venezuela&#8217;s devastating twin earthquakes has topped 4,000, the government said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>At least 4,118 people were killed and 16,740 injured in the back-to-back June 24 quakes, which flattened entire districts in the coastal state of La Guaira, Venezuelan parliament chief Jorge Rodriguez wrote on Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands more are listed as missing.<\/p>\n<p>The stronger 7.5 magnitude quake &#8212; the biggest in Venezuela in over a century &#8212; struck 39 seconds after the first 7.2 magnitude shock, flattening entire high-rise apartment blocks to layers of rubble.<\/p>\n<p>Although rescue teams have abandoned their search for survivors, family members continue to search the ruins for their loved ones, in the hopes of giving them a dignified burial.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, a 3.0 magnitude tremor in central Caracas caused momentary panic and led to buildings being evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>The scale of the recovery effort facing Venezuela, where state services have been severely degraded by a prolonged economic crisis, is gargantuan.<br \/>\nThe United Nations on Wednesday issued an urgent appeal for nearly $300 million towards earthquake relief operations.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela&#8217;s interim president Delcy Rodriguez has called for the release of frozen assets held abroad to be used towards the recovery.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday she said she asked King Charles III to release about 30 tons of Venezuelan gold frozen under UK sanctions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll in Venezuela&#8217;s devastating twin earthquakes has topped 4,000, the government said Friday. At least 4,118 people were killed and 16,740 injured in the back-to-back June 24 quakes, which flattened entire districts in the coastal state of La Guaira, Venezuelan parliament chief Jorge Rodriguez wrote on Telegram. Thousands more are listed as missing. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51070,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51069\/revisions\/51070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}