Venezuela
VEN · 2024 energy mix · renewables 25.8% · fossil fuels 74.2%
Threat reading 27 of 100, classified HIGH THREAT, HOLDING. 1 events recorded here in the last seven days, 1 in the last thirty.
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Where its energy comes from
| Gas | 46.1% |
|---|---|
| Oil | 27.7% |
| Hydro | 25.8% |
| Coal | 0.4% |
In 2024, renewables accounted for 25.8% and fossil fuels for 74.2%. On electricity traded with its neighbours, Venezuela is close to balanced on electricity trade.
Sources under one per cent of the mix are left out of the table rather than listed as a row of zeroes. Percentages are shares of a country's primary energy, not of the power it generates.
Recorded history
NOAA's hazard records hold 63 significant earthquakes and 8 tsunamis in or just off Venezuela since 1498.
The deadliest was the 26 March 1812 magnitude 7.7 earthquake (Venezuela: la Guaira), which killed 26,000 people.
The strongest earthquake on record here was magnitude 8.0, on 1 September 1530 (Venezuela: Cumana).
The most recent entry is the 24 June 2026 magnitude 7.5 earthquake (Venezuela: Northern Venezuela), which killed 6,509 people.
Across the entries that record a death toll, 51,153 people died.
| Date | What | Where | Toll |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 March 1812 | magnitude 7.7 earthquake | Venezuela: la Guaira | 26,000 dead, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 14 December 1797 | earthquake | Venezuela: Cumana, Cariaco | 16,000 dead, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 24 June 2026 | magnitude 7.5 earthquake | Venezuela: Northern Venezuela | 6,509 dead, $19,600 million damage |
| 24 June 2026 | tsunami (waves to 0 m) | Northwest Venezuela | 6,509 dead, $19,600 million damage |
| 15 July 1853 | magnitude 6.7 earthquake | Venezuela: Cumana | 1,000 dead, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 15 July 1853 | tsunami (waves to 5 m) | Cumana | 1,000 dead, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 29 April 1894 | magnitude 7.1 earthquake | Venezuela: Merida, Tovar; Colombia: N Santander | 400 dead, damage $1 to 5 million |
| 12 April 1878 | magnitude 5.9 earthquake | Venezuela: Cua, Charallave, San Diego | 400 dead, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 30 July 1967 | magnitude 6.6 earthquake | Venezuela | 300 dead, $140 million damage |
| 30 July 1967 | tsunami (waves to 0.1 m) | Caracas | 300 dead, $140 million damage |
| 11 June 1641 | earthquake | Venezuela: Caracas, la Guaira, Cua | 200 dead, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 3 August 1950 | magnitude 6.4 earthquake | Venezuela: El Tocuyo | 100 dead, damage under $1 million |
| 9 July 1997 | magnitude 7.0 earthquake | Venezuela: Cariaco-cumana | 81 dead, $81 million damage |
| 9 July 1997 | tsunami (waves to 1 m) | Cariaco-cumana | 81 dead, $81 million damage |
| 3 February 1610 | magnitude 7.9 earthquake | Venezuela: la Grita, Bailadores, Merida | 60 dead, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 17 January 1929 | magnitude 6.9 earthquake | Venezuela: Cumana | 50 dead, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 17 January 1929 | tsunami (waves to 6 m) | Cumana | 50 dead, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 29 October 1900 | magnitude 7.7 earthquake | Venezuela: Macuto | 25 dead, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 29 October 1900 | tsunami (waves to 10 m) | Mancuto | 25 dead, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 21 August 2018 | magnitude 7.3 earthquake | Venezuela: Sucre; Trinidad | 5 dead, damage $1 to 5 million |
| 12 June 1974 | magnitude 6.1 earthquake | Venezuela | 5 dead, $3 million damage |
| 1 September 1530 | magnitude 8.0 earthquake | Venezuela: Cumana | 4 dead, damage $1 to 5 million |
| 1 September 1530 | tsunami (waves to 7.3 m) | Cumana | 4 dead, damage $1 to 5 million |
| 20 September 1968 | magnitude 6.5 earthquake | Venezuela: Carupano | 3 dead, damage $1 to 5 million |
| 5 April 1975 | magnitude 6.1 earthquake | Venezuela | 3 dead, $1 million damage |
These are the 25 deadliest and largest of 71 entries. A dash means NOAA recorded no number, not that nobody died. Older entries are fewer because fewer were written down, not because less happened.
Recorded history: NOAA NCEI hazard databases, public domain, retrieved 2026-10-22.
In the last 30 days
The most recent events our feeds placed in Venezuela:
- 7 November 2026: Northern South America, Panama Isthmus-2026
What the threat reading is made of
| Conflict | 7 |
|---|---|
| Unrest | 0 |
| Security | 15 |
| Spillover from neighbours | 15 |
| Natural hazard | 30 |
| Resilience | 59 |
Each is 0 to 100. Resilience runs the other way to the rest: a high number is a country better able to absorb a shock, not a country in more trouble.
Other countries tracked
Where the data comes from
Energy mix, 2024: Our World in Data, energy dataset (https://github.com/owid/energy-data), compiled by Pablo Rosado, Hannah Ritchie, Edouard Mathieu and Max Roser from the Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy, the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Ember and The Shift Dataportal. Licence: Our World in Data's own compilation is CC BY 4.0. The underlying figures stay under their original terms: Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy, U.S. EIA, Ember and The Shift Dataportal. The percentages shown here and the wording are ours. Threat reading: computed by Rift Web from the feeds listed on the sources page.