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On June 24, 2026, twin earthquakes (M7.2 and M7.5) struck northern Venezuela seconds apart, producing the country's deadliest earthquake in more than a century.1 The broader public health toll and context are detailed in Paníz-Mondolfi and coauthors viewpoint.2 International emergency medical teams (EMTs) deployed alongside national responders,3 and a familiar problem recurred: even a system built to produce standardized reports could not feed them cleanly into the platform coordinating the response.
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