"U.S. Southern Command continues to surge U.S. military capabilities to Venezuela today in support of ongoing U.S. earthquake relief efforts requested by the Venezuelan government and led by the State Department.
Two U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster aircraft are transporting U.S. Urban Search and Rescue teams based in Los Angeles and Fairfax, Virginia, and one U.S. Air Force C-17 will deliver load-movement equipment to Caracas.
U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Ospreys will transport an airfield assessment team to Venezuela to support airport operations that were impacted near the earthquake epicenter.
The U.S. Navy’s San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD 28) and Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Billings (LCS 15) have arrived in waters near Venezuela and will begin supporting relief and live-saving efforts.
Three U.S. Army CH-47 Chinooks and crews from Joint Task Force-Bravo will depart Soto Cano Air Base in Honduras en route to support the transport of key personnel and supplies aiding impacted Venezuelan communities.
The command’s U.S. Space Force component is providing satellite imagery of devastated areas to disaster relief planners in Venezuela to aid them in assessing where immediate live-saving and aid efforts are needed most and identifying what capability requests to prioritize."
As of two hours ago, the Venezuelan government announced that 589 people are confirmed dead and about 50,000 are still unaccounted for.
Update: the official death toll is now 920 with upwards of 3,000 injured. Hospitals are overwhelmed. Most of the news is coming from Caracas and nearby cities. But the earthquake struck a large area and it's still unclear what's happening in smaller cities and towns.
Aircraft carrying aid from Chile, Colombia, Spain, El Salvador, Mexico, Turkey and India have arrived.
YazataJun 28, 2026 01:08 AM (This post was last modified: Jun 28, 2026 04:43 AM by Yazata.)
Rescue teams from multiple countries continue to pull people out of collapsed buildings alive after three days.
Officially, confirmed dead are just under 1,500 and injuries are about 3,200. I expect the death toll to rise a lot when these piles of rubble are finally pulled apart and all the people squashed under the concrete are revealed.
YazataJun 30, 2026 12:42 AM (This post was last modified: Jun 30, 2026 12:49 AM by Yazata.)
(Jun 28, 2026 01:08 AM)Yazata Wrote: I expect the death toll to rise a lot when these piles of rubble are finally pulled apart and all the people squashed under the concrete are revealed.
The Venezuelan government reports that the current toll is 2,595 deaths and more than 12,000 injured. 189 buildings are known to have been destroyed. 6,462 people have been rescued alive. There are still something like 50,000 people missing. While many of those are probably ok but have been reported missing by friends or family, there may still be tens of thousands of people dead under the rubble of collapsed buildings.
Jun 26, 2026 12:27 AM
(This post was last modified: Jun 26, 2026 12:52 AM by Yazata.)
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