Two earthquakes tore through northern Venezuela on the evening of the twenty-fourth of June, a magnitude 7.2 foreshock and then, thirty-nine seconds later, a 7.5 mainshock, the strongest the country has recorded in over a century.
The coastal state of La Guaira, north of Caracas, took the worst of it. As of Friday the toll had reached at least 589 dead and 2,980 injured, according to acting President Delcy Rodríguez, and it will climb, with thousands still unaccounted for.
