Drone footage shot on Sunday (June 28) revealed the scale of destruction in Venezuela’s La Guaira, showing dozens of buildings collapsed into piles of sand and rubble in the coastal state about 40 km (25 miles) north of Caracas.

The death toll from last Wednesday's (June 24) twin earthquakes neared 1,500 people as foreign rescue teams poured into La Guaira, the hardest-hit state of a country long mired in a deep political and economic crisis.

Dozens of buildings collapsed into piles of sand and rubble in the coastal state, about 40 km (25 miles) north of Caracas.

The U.S. Geological Survey estimated more than 10,000 deaths were possible from the magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 quakes, which would place them among Latin America's deadliest of the last century.

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Drone footage reveals scale of Venezuela quake destruction in worst-hit La Guaira

VIDEO SHOWS: DRONE FOOTAGE OF AFTERMATH OF EARTHQUAKES IN LA GUAIRA, VENEZUELA

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SHOWS: LA GUAIRA, VENEZUELA (JUNE 28, 2026) (VIDEO OBTAINED BY REUTERS - No resale. No archive) (MUTE)

1. DRONE FOOTAGE OF LA GUAIRA COASTLINE SHOWING RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS, SOME REDUCED TO RUBBLE BY EARTHQUAKE, OTHERS LEFT STANDING

2. VARIOUS DRONE SHOTS OF BUILDINGS FLATTENED BY EARTHQUAKES

3. HEAVILY DAMAGED BUILDING STANDING NEXT TO COMPLETELY COLLAPSED ONES

4. EMERGENCY VEHICLES ON ROAD, BULLDOZER CLEARING DEBRIS

5. RESCUE WORKERS STANDING ON TOP OF RUBBLE OF COLLAPSED BUILDING

6. SEVERELY DAMAGED BUILDING LEANING AT DANGEROUS ANGLE, RESCUERS GATHERED AT ITS BASE

7. DEVASTATED CITY WITH BUILDINGS REDUCED TO RUBBLE

8. RESIDENTS VISIBLE INSIDE APARTMENT UNIT WITH PART OF BUILDING'S FRONT STRIPPED AWAY

9. EXPOSED INTERIOR OF APARTMENT BUILDING WITH FRONT WALL MISSING, COLLAPSED BUILDING NEARBY, PEOPLE MOVING ALONG ROAD BELOW

10. VEHICLES AND PEDESTRIANS MOVING ALONG ROAD LINED BY FLATTENED BUILDINGS

11. VARIOUS DRONE SHOTS OF FLATTENED BUILDINGS

12. VARIOUS DRONE SHOTS OF BUILDING COLLAPSED ON ITS SIDE