An online service created specifically to receive missing-person reports after the earthquakes in Venezuela has, within a few hours, received more than 55,000 reports of missing persons, of whom 36,000 are still unaccounted for.
The website was developed in record time by Venezuelans from the tech industry at home and abroad. It is not controlled by the country’s authorities. The domain was purchased yesterday, Thursday 25 June.
In a short time, family and friends have reported a total of 55,351 people missing. Of these, 36,056 have still not been located, while 19,295 have been found.
The figures appear to be rising minute by minute.
As we are writing this article, the developers are posting a message saying that they are having problems with heavy traffic.
From desaparecidosterremotovenezuela.com.
More than 12,800 are missing from the coastal city and state of the same name, La Guaira, which appears to be the densely populated area hardest hit.
The official figures for the dead and injured at the time of writing are 188 and 1,520 respectively, according to the newspaper El Nacional, one of the last independent, regime-critical newspapers in the country.
Venezuela’s Ministry of Health reports 235 dead.
At least 346 high-rise blocks and other buildings have been destroyed. It is estimated that 70,000 families are affected, according to Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello.
Satellite images of the city of La Guaira before and after the earthquakes show the extensive destruction. (Photo: ©2026 Vantor via AP)
In the state of La Guaira alone, on the Caribbean coast, the earthquakes razed at least 100 buildings to the ground.
The United States, through its Office of Foreign Asset Control, has announced (PDF) that all economic sanctions linked to disaster relief for Venezuela are being lifted, for the time being until 23 October.
Death toll from Venezuela earthquakes rises to 235, health ministry says.
(The video here is from La Guaira)pic.twitter.com/QWUJc8StxG
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