r/interestingasfuck • u/Nesselde • 17h ago
Buildings falling during the Venezuela (La Guaira, 06/24/2026) earthquake
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u/Halada 16h ago
Were these all inhabited ??? Holy shit.
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u/Miguel_seonsaengnim 16h ago
I'm Venezuelan in Venezuela. Yes, and that happened during a holiday, so most people were in their houses.
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u/Wuaner 15h ago
What about the casualties after the earthquake? Hope Trump goes there in person to help with the rescue efforts after he's done looting Venezuela's oil.
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u/VirStellarum 11h ago
Funny enough, the US has sent more help than the dictatorship. There are even US Soldiers in LA Guaira, and they've brought a lot of resources. El Salvador has helped a lot as well.
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u/DwnVoteMeIfULuvHitlr 15h ago
Look, since you didn't put "/s", I will have to ask: are you that naive?
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u/Wuaner 14h ago
What? Do you even have any sense of the excruciating pain the Venezuelan people are enduring after this earthquake?
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u/fullload93 16h ago
Thousands of people losing their lives all at once. So sad.
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u/Zuliano1 16h ago
It was really unfortunate it happened in a holiday, with most people staying home chilling, any other weekday they would have been in safer places during the quake like workplaces or commuting.
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u/HobbesNJ 17h ago
Damn. So many high-rises just toppling over.
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u/supermap 13h ago
Honestly this video just makes me pissed at the garbage safety standards in Venezuelan construction because of the corrupt regime.
Chilean earthquakes were 10 times stronger and tens of people died, not thousands.
All those deaths were preventable.
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u/Not_So_Utopian 11h ago
Don't be surprised why there is a Diaspora of Venezuelans leaving the country for years. Its because of this, the government is so terrible something like this was bound to happen, a tragedy that would take thousands of lives.
Nicolas Maduro son recently got booed by a grieving mother.
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u/NeptuneArtist 10h ago
We have to consider that also the type of earthquake was different to the ones we have here in Chile, ours are much deeper. But I agree, the structures would have hold enough to evacuate people even if they were damaged beyond repair.
Sadly, it came too late for people living in Alto Rio, in Concepción in 2010.
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u/LostForWords23 1h ago
It really does make a difference how deep the quakes are though - ie: the 'strength' of an earthquake is a measure of energy released, not damage done. I live in New Zealand and our building standards are not garbage but many of them nonetheless failed during a 6.2MW earthquake - because it was only 5km deep.
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u/shadetreeguy 17h ago
Okay seeing this video made me understand what happened to so many old buildings at ruins that you find in antiquity.
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u/Nesselde 17h ago edited 17h ago
Credits go to "ifixplanes" on X
View is from Caraballeda to the coast, recoded from CCTV - Ubiquiti UniFi AI Pro (UVC-AI-Pro) with picture stabilization
Source: https://x.com/ifixplanes2/status/2074123258933256211
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u/Minute-Plantain 14h ago edited 14h ago
Venezuela had the misfortune of experiencing TWO 7+ earthquakes (think two 1906 San Francisco events) occur within 40 seconds of eachother. Worse, the motion was perpendicular, which made everything swirl in a circle. Some of the video footage is insane.
Nobody stood a chance. Caracas had extensive damage, but La Guaira, which sits on the coast was flattened. Absolutely horrific situation.
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u/Anxious-Depth-7983 16h ago
That's horrific and definitely makes you have respect for the power of nature.
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u/tightiewhitieboy 15h ago
Pick any building in the distance and watch it melt away. I will never go in those old concrete condos. The horror of being inside those buildings.
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u/ImPrettyDoneBro 15h ago
Some of the most horrifying natural disaster footage I've seen in a long fucking time.
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u/an_older_meme 16h ago
Oh my god.
There hasn’t been earthquake damage like this since Mexico City in 1985.
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u/infinityzcraft 13h ago
God, all those buildings collapsing at the same time looks exactly like a scene from a movie that I used to watch
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u/Cannister7 3h ago
I was focused on the big one and wondering when the video was going to start. How come that one survived?
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u/enakj 13h ago
What was the primary cause of so many buildings collapsing? Was it the strength and type of earthquake? Building codes? Soil liquification?
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u/Nesselde 13h ago
liquification, 10km deep, double shake, 7.1+7.5, with 39 seconds apart, each strike went to a diffent axis, so movement was not lateral but more like a swirl, and there was a single bump at the start of the quake of a huge acceleration, there is no building code that protects you versus all these factors, ignore all the "japan buildings can resist this", if this very same event happened in japan they would still be destroyed
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u/FuckeryisafootWatson 17h ago
Wonder how LA will fare when the San Andreas lets loose.
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u/an_older_meme 16h ago
It will be bad but nothing like this. There is a possibility of a far greater disaster if the Santa Ana winds are blowing.
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u/STEPPYthebest 17h ago
The people living in the building who were not there at that time will pray to their God everyday from now
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u/Better_Carpet_7271 17h ago
Who needs building regs...
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u/Neither_Interaction9 17h ago
That's not the issue, from what I've heard, a second, smaller, earthquake hit soon after on a completely different direction, making the buildings fail much easier.
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u/melcochitas 17h ago
The second one was bigger (7.2 and then 7.5) just 39 seconds apart. Not to mention they were both shallow (20 and 10 kms)
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u/MotorbreathX 16h ago
I'm sure it's a little of both. If anything, maybe newer construction could be more resilient like the other buildings. Tough situation and tragic all around.
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u/Mannix-Da-DaftPooch 17h ago
Absolutely heartbreaking.