In the city of Catia La Mar on Venezuela’s coast, Yilsmaris Blanco stared in shock at the scenes of devastation early Thursday after powerful twin earthquakes levelled dozens of buildings. “It was terrible. Everything, everything collapsed,” the 39-year-old woman told AFP. “We thank God because… we’re alive, but there are people right now suffering with their relatives buried, with their relatives crushed and they can’t get them out.” A man walks past a fire outside a building following an earthquake in Catia La Mar, La Guaira state, some 30kms north-west of Caracas, early on June 25, 2026. —AFP Two massive earthquakes, of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5, struck areas west of the capital Caracas on Wednesday evening, killing at least 164 people and injuring nearly 1,000, according to interim leader Delcy Rodriguez. Authorities have yet to provide a figure for those missing, as reports flooded in from across the country of people trapped under rubble. The northern region of La Guaira, facing the Caribbean, was hit harde...