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‘Paralysed by fear’: Venezuelans tell of escape and loss after huge earthquakes

People in Caracas and coastal towns describe powerful quakes that collapsed buildings and killed at least 164

As a double whammy of powerful earthquakes rattled Venezuela’s northern coast on Wednesday, residents of the capital, Caracas, scrambled out on to the streets from shuddering, fractured buildings.

“It was horrible. I felt like the house was moving to a different rhythm to the earth. I had to carry my mum out. She was paralysed by fear,” recalled 18-year-old Sebastian Rodríguez, whose family runs a shop in Centro Plaza, an iconic brutalist commercial centre in the affluent neighbourhood of Los Palos Grandes.

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Jun 25, 2026 Venezuela Earthquakes Americas

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