Drone images reveal the extent of the destruction caused by earthquakes in Venezuela; VIDEO

VIDEO: Drone images show the extent of the devastation in La Guaira
Images taken with a drone reveal the scale of the destruction caused in the city of La Guaira, the most impacted by the strong earthquakes that hit Venezuela last Wednesday night (24).
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The video, obtained and verified by the news agency Reuters, shows dozens of buildings collapsed into piles of sand and rubble in the coastal state, about 40 km north of the country's capital, Caracas.
On Monday morning (29), the region suffered again from a new tremor.
An aerial image shows buildings destroyed by earthquakes in La Guaira, Venezuela
REUTERS
According to information from the United States Geological Survey, the magnitude was 4.6 and the earthquake occurred at 7am local time - 8am in Brasília.
"It was very strong," Ismael Díaz, a resident of La Guaira, told the AFP news agency.
The president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, brother of the interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, said that "no damage was reported".
The new tremor occurred as local and international rescue teams race against time to extract survivors from the rubble in Venezuela. According to a UN estimate, there are still around 50,000 people missing in the country.
Even with the decreasing chances of finding survivors every hour, rescue teams can still find people alive in mountains of rubble, offering distressed families a brief breath of hope.
The first 48 to 72 hours after a natural disaster are crucial to rescue efforts, and experts believe that, after the deadline, the task basically turns into recovering bodies. Even so, rescuers saved 33 survivors on Sunday, according to the government.
The operations are complex and require manual work and have been made difficult by the heat, according to reports from rescuers. Those closely following the rescue efforts say that the smell of decomposing bodies is increasingly intense.
Rescue teams search for survivors amid the rubble of buildings in La Guaira, Venezuela, on June 28, 2026.
Miguel Medina/Pool/AFP
Even though the chances of finding survivors were slim this Monday and amid growing frustration among the population with the government's response, volunteers continued to incessant work amid the rubble.
"Everyone says there is no one left, but we are still here. Let's see if we can still get someone else out," Eduardo Cardozo, a rural worker who traveled to help as a volunteer in rescue work in Tucacas, on the coast, almost 200 km east of Caracas, told AFP news agency.
In La Guaira, a state neighboring the capital Caracas and the hardest hit area, international rescue missions arrived en masse on Sunday. In previous days, residents had expressed frustration and outrage at the inefficiency of the country's responses to the disaster, which ended up being led by civilians.
Interim President Delcy Rodríguez called for the continuation of operations and announced plans to assist people who lost their homes due to the numerous collapses. More than 770 buildings collapsed partially or completely, including residential and commercial buildings and dozens of hospitals.
The first earthquakes affected up to 6.8 million of Venezuela's almost 30 million inhabitants, estimates the UN. The risk of further damage remains as aftershocks continue to hit the country.
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Source: G1