Two massive earthquakes hit Venezuela - 24 June 2026

[McG]

US Geological Survey (USGS) estimates a 44% chance of more than 10,000 fatalities, and a 30% chance of more than 100,000. That’s not good.

Back-to-back powerful earthquakes hit Venezuela, causing widespread damage

Back-to-back powerful earthquakes have slammed Venezuela, collapsing buildings in the capital of Caracas. The U.S.

apnews.com

 

[OldSolduer]

That’s a fckin huge one. I reckon DART will be deployed- do we still have DART ?

 

[brihard]

Yeah, from the couple hours of video before the sun set, this looks really, really bad. Multi-storey buildings pancaked in some places. And of course darkness won’t help. This is close to as powerful an earthquake as Venezuela has ever recorded, and the location sucks.

Any HUSAR team around the world that could be freed up should be doing kit checks.

I hope we offer whatever we can as DART. This is likely a humanitarian catastrophe.

 

[MilEME09]

I read a double quake like this is extremely rare, about once in 1200 years or so. I doubt any building can easily withstand a two back to back 7.5+ quakes. Who knows what kind of after shocks might happen tomorrow too. Their infrastructure will be in rough shape after this. Times like this a LHD would be useful to set up an aid base off the coast.