There are many levels of damage which occur in solid and pre-fabricated structures inside Seismic activity high risk areas and regions, which are determined by the level of seismic activity, but also by strength of structure, construction materials and historical wear and tear, moderate Earthquake magnitude may cause severe damage in areas with weak structure construction, severe Earthequake magnitude may cause moderate damage where construction material is far stronger, depth and seismic period of seismic activity also determine the level of damage experienced. Landscape and environment also play a role, seismic activity which occurs on solid stone or hard terraferma can radiate energy in ways that are not seen in soft clay are particle matter environments. Common to all Earthquakes is an ascending scale of damage from slight damage that may readily be repaired, to damage that is so severe any structure no matter what its composition has little to no chance of survival even over the span of a few seconds. Wherever Earthquakes are present, the period from first activity, typically a gentle swaying motion of the ground from side to side, to swaying motion with slight elevation, it is the first few seconds which count in and for the human mind, ALL structures need to remain standing for the longest period of time to maximise safe evacuation. Successful Earthquake preparedness and civil society construction predparedness MUST entail building for the highest quality universally. In the video above, a civil engineer begins the work of lower level damage assessment for those buildings which remain standing, but which may now carry a level of superstructure damage that may require demolition of the structure, despite appearing otherwise viable and healthy. Many buildings which remain standing in Venezuela, and may seem completely safe to re-enter, are in fact fit only for demolition.
*Third Provisional Assessment is $167,000,000 (one hundred and sixty seven million US dollars) are immediately available for emergency shelter, food, water, medicines and immediate needs for directly affected, secondary affected and generally affected, including assistance with distribution of goods, mobilisation of food and water supply, treatment of food and water supply and setting up of temporary accommodation, followed by a main tranche of $259,000,000,000 (two hundred and fifty nine billion US dollars) for rebuilding to sufficient standard all buildings destroyed in the Earthquake, earthquake proofing and safeguarding, infrastructure proofing standards, roads, railways, pedestrian and other public service byways all rebuilt to sufficient Earthquake proofing standards compliance. Major and minor local and national Government rebuilding, all to Earthquake proofing standards compliance, so initial investment, followed by main tranche spending allowances followed by budget over-runs which should be expected due to the nature of the work being done. We estimate a tidy $506,000,000,000 (five hundred and six billion US dollars) over the next 10 years. All of it directly and immediately debitable from national oil revenues.
These figures are in addition to public funds currently being collected by charities and aid organisations throughout the World. Insurance premiums however they might exist are not appropriate as they are unable to sufficiently ensure quality of forward development especially in the science of natural disaster preparedness and disaster-zone construction theory/practice.
While these estimates may seem high, and certainly higher than is seen elsewhere, these figures include a more realistic approach to international construction within areas at high risk of seismic activity, building within these areas requires more specialist construction knowledge, superior materials science, more precise construction supervision and far more research and development, in addition, maintenance regimes on construction completion to ensure stability over the longer term are default.
When natural disasters such is this strike, it is understandable to want to concentrate foremost on the human loss encountered, and the social implications of that loss, but equally one must concentrate on the future, and to ensure as much is done as possible to ensure further losses are not encountered, despite ongoing seismic activity, which is an entirely natural process.
Venezuela must be supported by the International Community beyond the current malaise over fossil resources, and beyond the current political malaise about whom does and does not control those resources, indeed, Venezuela has an opportunity here to become a powerful and sturdy example of humanities greater spirit for the future. It is unnacceptable for any entity to claim that a Socialist nation does not have the capacity to stand as an example for governmental planning and foresight, when Venezuela, among others, stands at the forefront of humanities greatest existential challenge on Earth, life amongst the seismic habitat and environment.*
Venezuela is of course the scene of an international criminal abduction, a criminal offence, undertaken and committed by the so-called 'Government' of the United States, which spent a lot of public treasure or money on 'advertising' that criminal offence, to criminally steal the natural resources of a foreign state. The US Government, which I can assure you is not much more than a common and institutionally criminal state, now accepts, in full, the monetary consequences of those decisions.
Nicolás Maduro Moros, the 53rd and current President of Venezuela, is currently illegally abducted by the so-called Government of the United States awaiting a criminal trial which is illegal under International law, the abduction is suspected to have been the malignant work of Mr Marco Rubio a known American nationalist extremist and fundamentalist operating within the US Department of State. The so-called US Government, in pursuit of a form of populism that would normalise that criminal state, is behaving in a manner that is entirely dependent on the ability to make headlines on internet websites and various small sector private news broadcasters, to breed within the public mind an acceptance of crime, its motives, and its outcomes. The International Community is, of course, vastly more professional and, therefore, entirely unconcerned with the security & safety of the so-called US Government and those whom purport to serve it.
Of course the issue of abducting heads of states from their nations in order to engage in supposed equality of legal foresight exists primarily in the International Community under the auspices of International Law, under International Jurisdiction, process and guidance, a concept and framework the United States is neither signatory too, nor enactor of, the so-called US Government preferring to full-fill the role of International Policeman without law, court, jury or justice. There is not now, nor has there ever been, a nation state that has ever played that role. Nor has there ever been a nation state that survived for long in alliance to such a monstrous violation of the International spirit. Indeed, all nations that are foolish enough to state a belief in such nonsense are not merely bystanders to crime, but active participants in crime, and International crimes are supreme in nature. The United States Government is widely, throughout the World, considered the Worlds most corrupt state.
Throughout the entirety of the period from 1947 to the present day, the World knows almost nothing about the American populace due to the errant and corrupted nature of American polity, culture, society and media, leaving the American populace one of the most secretive in the World. Externally, the rest of the World knows only that which is designed to advertise a corrupted form of American government which is neither Capitalism nor Socialism, but likely an abhorrent form of deregulated Corporatism shared and operated by no other nation on Earth. This deregulated Corporatism is almost entirely dependent on Carbon Fossil resources and arrives within the US economy as a source of income in statutory form, the so-called Petrodollar, an income which is derived from oil-based transactions on monetary markets conducted by others but which the US Government profits from, this same profit is almost certainly being used to undermine other Governments around the World, even those whom profess a friendly disposition to the US Government.
Over recent years it has become obvious that the US Government is funding far right idealism through highly dubious private sector media corporations in other countries; in the UK, these ideas have no hope of settling in any political form, despite the so-called US Governments insistence to the contrary.
Curiously, since the induction of the Nationalist Donald J Trump into the office of US Federalist, an increasing number of wealthy Autocrats have begun to engage in setting up so-called media organisations that tend to permeate far right nationalist and sometimes even Fascist themed content toward the unsuspecting public, all directed toward the anti-war and anti-fascist majority most especially in Europe. The anti-war majority stood against US Federalist Government violent campaigns in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Venezuela and now the Islamic Republic of Iran. On each occasion the US Federal so-called Government has attempted to initiate campaigns of violence against usually smaller nations, the anti-war majority have advised against, and then been ignored. The so-called US Government instead choosing to initiate secondary acts of violence utilising Fascist and Nationalist themes in order, once again, to teach the wider public that crime and disorder are normal concepts that may be admired, publicly.
On a number of occasions, especially in the United States, conversations regarding the adoption of armed conflict within the United States and European area have been disseminated by far right media entities. A state of Armed Conflict within the Western World would only end in the pogrom of the Nationalist and its Fascist ideologue and their permanent expulsion from the entirety of western Government strata, both local and national, and no doubt, strong prosecution within the local, national and international environment.
In literal terms, far right idealism has as much standing within internationalism as looting does in natural disaster, tolerable up and to a point, but beyond that point quite unacceptable and worthy of strong and unforgiving suppression.
Perhaps you might want to name this 'double whammy' Earthquake after Mr Trump himself?
Yes, in fact we shall do exactly this, the Earthquake, a double strike occurred slightly west of Morón at El Guayabo, a coastal town in Northern Venezuela The Twin Earthquakes have caused extensive damage throughout the region, fatalities and injuries are expected to rise over the coming days, many fatalities have yet to occur, as many are currently trapped without the ability to move and will not survive for much longer, indeed over the course of the last few hours alone hundreds more have died from constriction and compression injuries; this incident is, naturally, one of the more serious incidents of its kind. At present the International Community is still responding to the incident, but will, as expected, arrive in due course with a clear and comprehensive plan of action in front of it.
Financial damage is provisionally estimated in the tens/hundreds of billions of dollars but will increase as time goes on.
We determine and adhere to the ideologically determined principle of continued expectation and unequivocal resilience de terminated by principle and stout-heartedness, not by and for simple expectation, but resolutely toward a principled and exacting standard of hope and inclusion underscored by purposeful determination and principled inclusion, furthermore, we celebrate the sturdy forthrightness, moral certainty and honourable determinateness of our principally imposed position in this time of heightened determined and forthright principle, and resolute steadfastness.
We believe any nation that is attacked by another has the lawful right of self defence, and there must be a condemnation of any nation that attacks another, very rarely is there any true legitimacy and those whom plan these things are questionable.
But the United States Federal Government is particularly egregious in this regard, there is a psychological addiction to violence that exists in the Federal Government of the United States that does not exist within its own population.
The reason for this of course is partly due to the political squalor of Imperialism which does, despite what the various Federal representatives will tell you, exist in the Federal ideology, and also partly due to retarded notions of global domination and supremacy, which in turn are based on absolutely nothing of any value.
One of the biggest problems the Peace has when working on the International stage is during conversation with International actors that have fallen into the habit of believing that the World is ‘policed’ by the Federal Government of the United States, and that, ultimately, makes for a World order that International actors can subscribe to.
I know of no International actor that has any coherent representation internationally that could cleanly, and convincingly, tell that story truthfully and openly to the public.
The media will tell you that it is better to say nothing, do not talk about it, stay silent and do not rock the boat.
TEHRAN, June 10. /TASS/. Iran has the right to defend itself following US infringements on its sovereignty and territorial integrity, Tehran’s top diplomat Abbas Araghchi said in telephone calls with his Turkish and Saudi counterparts.
According to a statement released by the Iranian Foreign Ministry, during the conversations, Araghchi "condemned the US military aggression and violations of the Islamic Republic’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity." He also emphasized Tehran’s "inherent right to lawful self-defense."
Earlier, the US [amended] claimed a series of strikes on Iran following the claimed downing of a US Apache helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz. In response, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targeted US bases.
To the War on Terror generation we say only this, your contribution to humanity isn’t a contribution, it is worthless self-indulgent and juvenile garbage.
Pay for the entirety of the damage you have caused here, add to it compensation for every one of the victims of your behaviour, add to it a healthy sum for rebuilding the infrastructure that existed here and which you have carefully refused to tell anybody about.
When you are done paying, extract yourselves from Government, and never return.
And while you are about it, clear up your own house too, it stinks.
We are unable to separate ourselves from our relationship with the European Union, and the Russian Federation.
So, we will continue on with our relationship with both.
If you wish to continue on with this useless and damaging war, you will do so with a very good reason, and you will bear in mind that the Peace is represented here.
The Conflict in which Ukraine and the Russian Federation are involved is a long and complex one, the entire population of the World has been subject to a wide variety of explanations, from many, attempting to determine the reasons for the conflict, some are coherent and some are baseless, all are inhabited to some degree by propaganda, which is the typical character of War and Conflict. We have seen and have heard and read explanations for the conflict that are beset with ulterior motives, often from actors that have no obvious connection to the conflict. In 2026, the RF and Ukraine conflict has reached a stalemate, in which no side is able to determine a clear or prescient outcome.
For the last several months the RF/Ukraine conflict has been there without progression, so this war has all but concluded. Neither the RF or Ukraine is able to clearly determine in the public’s eyes what exactly the next stage is, so if there is no next stage, then your conflict is essentially at an end.
We say to the European Union, the Russian Federation and the Ukrainians that the greatest opportunity for the Ukrainians to make progress in this war existed 18 months ago, but has now passed. Holding an election in Ukraine proper would have cleared the way for a domestic reappraisal of the situation around domestic Ukrainian politics, but would also have opened up the possibility of accelerated political revision in the East, ephemeral thing that now is; an election there could have worked for the Ukrainian government, but that opportunity was completely ignored by the Ukrainians. Perhaps because they believed that externalised political militarism inside Ukraine proper would shovel better fortune into their political/military space, perhaps because they feared that the election would go toward the RF. A political judgement on this would favour one side or the other, an objective determination would simply identify the peaceful motive as a stand-alone outcome.
So you have no other choice now but to throw things at each other forever, I’m sure some weapons merchant somewhere will do well financially out of it, for a while, until the people figure things out, and the whole concept of Government itself becomes less important in everybody’s eyes.
Then you have a problem, a large well funded and fully exploited one I’m sure. But a problem that is fundamentally undone in an environment in which the European Union and the Russian Federation have a more normalised and agreeable relationship with each other, which was the situation in the rather recent past.
Hmmm, as far as problems go, I am inclined to see here an opportunity which matches quietly with my own idealism, and that is that the European Union, which I am rather keen on, is immensely interesting and wholesome, I like the EU, I like its culture, its history and heritage. I like the Russian Federation, its contribution to European history, Its magnificent contribution to space research, development and exploration, its equally magnificent heritage of literature and poetry. The Ukrainians are a curious lot it has to be said, and in truth there is a lot to dislike in its history, and its political outlook, but I find the Ukrainian people agreeable and they are simply struggling along as best they can in a landscape that hasn’t been working in their interests, at least for the last few years anyway.
The bulk of the rest of the World is Peaceful, it doesn’t have a gun you see.
America has never been a white only nation, America has never been a Caucasian nation, America has never been a single ethnic nation, it will surprise you to learn that even before the modern migration from Europe all those years ago, different ethnicities existed inside the American plate proper mixed within the native American dialogue. America was, for the longest time, an advanced nation of native spiritualised localities.
Today, America is no different to what it was at its beginning, but perhaps, there is a more restrictive mental understanding of American history these days, based not on the truth, but on the lie of corporatised diatribe, corruption, and the false belief in God’s where there be none.
We wish the American nation well as it approaches its 42,000th birthday, and most purposefully wish any other nation similar good tidings of Peace and Social Harmony; after all, your history and what you know of it is the finer part of whom you are, and your future.
Conflicts involving the U.S. "War on Terror" since 9/11 have displaced at least 37 to 38 million people in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, and Syria. This conservative estimate includes both internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees, with some estimates suggesting the figure could be as high as 48–59 million, comparable only to WWII-era displacement. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Key Aspects of Displacement
Primary Conflict Zones: The vast majority of displacement occurred in war zones where the US initiated combat, conducted drone strikes, or operated directly, including Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria.
Scale and Impact: Over 38 million people, including millions of children, have been forced to flee their homes, often resulting in prolonged insecurity and poverty.
Returnees vs. Continued Displaced: While some refugees and IDPs have returned home, others face ongoing conflict, or were forced to return due to poverty and deportation.
Humanitarian Crisis: The displacement has created severe food insecurity and malnutrition, with millions suffering from indirect consequences of destroyed infrastructure.
Regional Trends: In the Sahel, conflict and counter-terrorism challenges resulted in 3.8 million people being displaced by late 2024, a 58% increase from 2020, as reported in. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
The Costs of War Project at Brown University highlights that these wars have profoundly impacted civilian populations in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia. [1]
