Key Facts
—The disaster. Twin quakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 struck north-central Venezuela on June 24, the country’s strongest in over a century.
—The toll. Officials have confirmed more than two hundred dead and over 1,500 injured, with the figures still rising.
—The oil. Chevron, Eni, Repsol and Shell all reported their Venezuelan operations unaffected, the epicentre lying away from the main oil regions.
—The damage. US scientists estimate economic losses between $10 billion and $100 billion, the upper end near the size of the whole economy.
