Venezuela earthquake death toll exceeds 1,400 as 50,000 remain missing

Over 1,400 confirmed dead with 50,000 unaccounted for; 3,000+ injured; thousands displaced living in shelters; multiple children rescued from rubble but many others lost including family members of survivors.

Three days after twin earthquakes struck Venezuela's coast, the narrow window in which survival remains possible was closing over the ruins of La Guaira, where more than 1,400 confirmed dead and nearly 50,000 unaccounted for speak to a scale of loss not seen in Latin America in a century. Over 1,600 foreign rescuers joined exhausted civilians who had already spent days digging with bare hands, racing a biological clock that disaster science measures in hours. The catastrophe has exposed not only the earth's indifference to human settlement, but the accumulated fragility of a nation worn down b

Venezuela earthquake death toll exceeds 1,400 as 50,000 remain missing

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