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Venezuela Earthquakes 2026

Venezuela Earthquakes: What Comes Next

Subscribe on LinkedIn This story first appeared in Amy Weaver’s LinkedIn newsletter, Direct Relief: Hope Ahead. On June 24, I was in an Uber rushing from speaking at Stanford to catch ...

Medical aid arrives in Caracas, Venezuela.

Venezuela Earthquakes 2026

Critical Medical Aid Arrives in Venezuela to Support Patient Care, Post-Earthquake

A critical shipment of medical aid has arrived in Venezuela to treat patients impacted by last month’s devastating earthquakes. On Saturday, 25 pallets of medical aid, totaling more ...

A man in a gray shirt and red helmet looks under rubble amid collapsed building materials.

Venezuela Earthquakes 2026

Direct Relief COO Craig Redmond on Venezuela’s Earthquake and the Power of Local Disaster Response

When a magnitude 9.3 earthquake struck just off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia in 2004, triggering a tsunami and killing more than 200,000 people within 20 minutes, Craig Redmond quickly ...