The epicentre of the stronger earthquake was at a depth of 80 kilometres in the south of the country, not far from the Pacific coast.

So far, there have been no reports of injuries or material damage.

According to eyewitness accounts published on the EMSC website, the earthquake was felt intensely, with tables shaking in some homes.

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Media reports indicate the official number of injured remains unchanged at 16,740, while 6,462 people have been rescued. The number of people left homeless stands at 17,907, according to the data.

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According to data from the Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Centre, the seismic tremor was recorded at 20:22.

The epicenter was located 17 kilometers southeast of Prizren and 71 kilometers north of Skopje.

The earthquake had a magnitude of 2.2.

To be continued…

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NASA estimates that approximately 58,870 buildings were damaged or destroyed, causing serious problems for housing and infrastructure.

The World Health Organization has also expressed concern about the risk of epidemics spreading, as systems for registering missing persons and victims are inadequate.

The many problems in the healthcare system, water and sewage networks, combined with the forced displacement of populations, could encourage outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles, diphtheria and whooping cough.

Media reports say that the World Food Programme is seeking $50 million in aid, while the international community has mobilized by sending 40 rescue teams, and the United States announced financial assistance of $300 million.

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According to the authorities, the seismic tremor had a focal depth of just 5 kilometers, while the epicenter was recorded at sea, about 116 kilometers southwest of the city of Guasave, in the state of Sinaloa.

Due to its shallow depth, the earthquake was felt in several areas near the coast; however, so far no deaths, injuries, or significant material damage have been reported.

Mexican authorities are monitoring the situation and continuing checks in the affected areas, while no tsunami warning has been issued so far.

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The rescue operation took place in the coastal state of La Guaira and was seen as a moment of hope for the international teams continuing the search for other survivors.

The two survivors were transported on improvised stretchers to an ambulance. Both were in serious health condition, but managed to survive.

According to the authorities, the rescue was made possible after twelve hours of intensive work. Teams used special search cameras, technological equipment and specialized tools to penetrate the unstable structures without endangering the lives of those trapped.

The earthquakes that struck Venezuela last Wednesday have caused at least 1,450 victims, while thousands of people are still reported missing.

During the weekend alone, at least 33 people were rescued, but authorities warn that hopes of finding survivors diminish significantly after 72 hours following an earthquake.

However, the rescue of the father and son four days after the catastrophe has restored optimism among search-and-rescue teams and families still waiting for news of their loved ones.

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“The smell is a sign that there are still bodies under the rubble,” the human rights organization Provea wrote on platform X over the weekend. The official death toll so far stands at 1,450, according to the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez. Around 3,200 people have been injured.

Tens of thousands of people are still listed as missing. About 30,000 Venezuelan emergency workers and 2,700 rescue experts from 24 countries have been deployed.

“Today we rescued survivors, therefore the rescue operations will not be called off,” acting President Delcy Rodríguez said on Sunday. According to experts, the chances of survival for those buried under rubble drop significantly after 72 hours — that is, three days.

Nevertheless, after 86 hours, international teams rescued a 60-year-old woman in Caraballeda, La Guaira, as El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele reported on X.

The government is checking whether buildings are habitable

According to the latest damage assessment, approximately 780 residential buildings and 38 hospitals were destroyed or severely damaged. Shopping centers and other public buildings also collapsed — a total of around 2,500 residential buildings and other facilities. At least 430 aftershocks were recorded following the earthquakes measuring 7.2 and 7.5 on the Richter scale on Wednesday early evening (local time).

More than 70,000 families need humanitarian aid after the catastrophe. Many people are sleeping outside or in emergency shelters. The presidency has set up a special commission to assess the extent of the damage and the habitability of buildings, as President Rodríguez announced.

Desperate search by relatives

According to an unofficial platform for tracing missing persons, more than 47,000 people are currently considered missing — after nearly 79,000 missing-person reports were filed. However, these figures cannot be independently verified. People are also searching for the names of their relatives on lists of survivors, such as those in emergency shelters.

Venezuela was already in a difficult situation before the earthquakes. For years, the country has suffered from political tensions, economic problems, and one of the world’s biggest migration crises. In January, Washington carried out a military operation in the country, capturing authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro. The current president had been vice president in Maduro’s government.

In recent days, the acting president has faced growing criticism. After being booed during a tour of the capital, Caracas, on Friday, she was criticized on social media on Sunday over a ceremonial meeting with international rescue teams. “Every second matters. Every second. Yet Delcy Rodríguez’s government is preventing rescue workers from doing their job for a political stunt,” government critic and journalist Orlando Avendaño wrote on X.

Nobel Peace Prize winner wants to return to her homeland

Meanwhile, opposition politician María Corina Machado announced that she intends to return to her homeland because of the earthquakes. “Absolutely, the time has come,” she told Fox News. However, according to a report in the New York Times, the US government considers such a swift return inappropriate.

Last December, the politician, who had been living in hiding, secretly left Venezuela to personally accept the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. Shortly afterward, while she was abroad, President Maduro was captured. Washington is now working closely with acting President Delcy Rodríguez. / Der Standard.

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The child, named Moises, was found trapped under the debris and rescued after a lengthy operation by search-and-rescue teams.

In the video released by Venezuela’s interim president, Delsy Rodríguez, rescuers can be seen carrying the 11-year-old on a stretcher after he had spent more than 70 hours beneath the rubble.

“A few minutes ago, an 11-year-old boy was rescued in Karabageda. At this moment, every life saved is a source of hope for Venezuela,” Rodríguez wrote in a post on the X platform, accompanying the message with footage of the rescue operation.

Among those taking part in the operation were members of the specialized USAR Colombia 1 team, as well as firefighters from Bogota, who are in Venezuela to assist in search-and-rescue operations.

Meanwhile, search-and-rescue operations continue without interruption in the areas affected by the earthquakes, as authorities hope that, despite the passing days, survivors may still be found beneath the rubble.

According to the latest official toll, at least 1,430 people have lost their lives, while another 3,238 were injured by the two powerful earthquakes measuring 7.2 and 7.5 in magnitude, which struck Venezuela just seconds apart on Wednesday.

Authorities fear that the death toll will rise significantly, as more than 50 thousand people are still listed as missing.

The damage caused by the two earthquakes is estimated at around 7 billion dollars, an amount representing approximately 6% of Venezuela’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), according to an assessment published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

The UNDP’s preliminary assessment, carried out in the first hours after the disaster, is based mainly on satellite images and demographic data.

However, the organization clarifies that this estimate does not include infrastructure damage, the full economic consequences, or the long-term cost of reconstruction, stressing that the real impact of the disaster could be up to three times greater.

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A 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck on Wednesday evening, followed less than a minute later by another 7.5-magnitude quake, the strongest since 1900, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

Health Minister Carlos Alvarado said late on Thursday that the death toll had risen to 235.

Jorge Rodriguez, head of Venezuela’s National Assembly and the brother of acting president Delcy Rodriguez, said earlier in the day that around 200 people remained trapped, while 250 buildings had been damaged or destroyed.

At least eight hospitals, the headquarters of the Venezuelan Red Cross and the French Embassy are among the buildings reported to have suffered major damage.

Interior Minister Diosdadao Cabello said about 70,000 families in La Guaira state had been affected by the earthquake.

La Guaira, the coastal state adjacent to Caracas and home to the capital’s main airport, is among the hardest-hit areas.

“It has turned into a disaster zone,” acting president Rodriguez said, adding that the government was working with private companies to bring in heavy equipment and speed up rescue operations.

Electricity is limited in some parts of the state, while Caracas airport has been closed because of the damage it sustained.

Emergency workers and volunteers searched throughout the night for people trapped in collapsed buildings. However, in some parts of the country residents said official help had been delayed.

Yamileth Jimenez, a resident of the city of La Guaira, said her 19-year-old son remained trapped under the rubble of the seven-story apartment building where they lived.

“He is under the concrete slabs and there are no machines to get him out,” said Jimenez, whose father had died just three days earlier.

In the city of La Guaira, volunteers dug through the rubble with their bare hands as families waited for news of missing relatives. Along the Caracas–La Guaira highway, groups of citizens were heading toward the coast carrying water, food and medicine.

“We lost everything. We have no food or medicine… We hope help arrives as soon as possible,” said Pedro Perez, 64, the owner of an upholstery workshop, who said he had lost his home and business and was now sleeping on the street with his wife and children.

Countries from around the world have pledged support, including some states that had previously opposed Venezuela, which for decades has suffered from international isolation because of political repression, economic collapse and diplomatic pressure.

Rodriguez said international rescue teams were expected to arrive soon and thanked leaders including U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Washington took steps to ease sanctions by authorizing transactions related to earthquake relief that would normally have been prohibited.

Trump said the United States was “ready, determined and able to help.”

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington would send rescue teams, while the Pentagon would help with logistics and support for Caracas’s damaged airport.

United Nations humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher said the organization was coordinating international rescue teams and that “a massive joint effort” would be needed in a country where, even before the earthquake, 8 million people needed humanitarian assistance.

The United Nations human rights mission in Venezuela urged the government to lift restrictions on some social media networks, stressing that internet access is “a matter of life or death.”

Venezuela lies in an earthquake-prone zone, and the deadliest tremors in the country’s modern history occurred in the northeast in 1997, when 73 people were killed, and in Caracas in 1967, when 236 people lost their lives./REL

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