The official toll of fatalities from the earthquakes that struck Venezuela on June 24, 2026 reached 6,509 deaths, according to the weekly bulletin issued by Jorge Rodríguez, president of the National Assembly.
The document, related to the reconstruction phase, also reports 6,462 people rescued alive and 226,696 treated in hospitals since the disaster occurred exactly two months ago.
The death toll has steadily risen from the 920 reported two days after the earthquake. The count surpassed 6,438 deaths in the report on August 18, and now includes 71 additional victims in less than a week.
The seismic doublet—magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5, separated by just 39 seconds—had its epicenter in the state of Yaracuy and primarily devastated La Guaira, with Caraballeda and Catia La Mar declared disaster zones, in addition to large areas of Caracas, Miranda, Carabobo, Aragua, and Falcón.
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) estimated from day one that there could be between 10,000 and 100,000 potential victims, and NASA calculated that around 59,000 buildings would have been destroyed.
In terms of housing, the bulletin from August 24 indicates that 60,785 properties have been evaluated: 35,545 were declared habitable, 14,239 have usage restrictions, and 11,001 pose a high risk to their occupants.
As of now, only 335 new homes have been delivered to those affected, a figure that starkly contrasts with the extent of the structural damage recorded.
Regarding debris cleanup, the Venezuelan government reports having removed 600,790 tons, which is equivalent to 28.61% of the estimated total, indicating that the majority of the removal work is still pending.
One of the most critical aspects of the crisis is that of the missing persons. The government of the acting president Delcy Rodríguez stopped updating that figure in the first days after the earthquake, while the independent citizen initiative "Missing from the Venezuela Earthquake" reported nearly 29,500 people unaccounted for as of July 25, a gap that humanitarian organizations have pointed out as a serious omission.
The Chavista regime activated the "Venezuela Renace Plan" as the official framework for reconstruction and announced talks with the United States and the International Monetary Fund to secure funding, although independent media and humanitarian organizations have described the response as inadequate given the scale of the disaster.
The earthquakes of June 24 represent, according to the USGS, the largest seismic disaster in Venezuela since 1900, and the country faced them amid a deep institutional crisis worsened by the capture of Nicolás Maduro in January of this year.
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