At least 4,300 people were killed and 16,740 others injured in the twin earthquakes that devastated Venezuela on June 24, as per government figures cited by AFP.
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The powerful back-to-back quakes flattened entire districts in the coastal state of La Guaira, Venezuelan Parliament President Jorge Rodriguez said in a post on Telegram.
Thousands of people remain missing as rescue and recovery operations continue.
The stronger of the two earthquakes, measuring magnitude 7.5 and the most powerful to hit Venezuela in more than a century, struck just 39 seconds after an initial magnitude 7.2 tremor, reducing entire high-rise apartment blocks to rubble.
While official rescue teams have ended their search for survivors, families continue to comb through the debris in the hope of recovering the remains of their loved ones for a dignified burial.
Venezuela faces a massive recovery effort as years of economic crisis have severely weakened the country's public services and emergency response capacity.
The United Nations on Wednesday launched an urgent appeal for nearly $300 million to support earthquake relief operations.
Interim President Delcy Rodriguez has also called for the release of Venezuelan assets frozen overseas to fund recovery efforts. On Wednesday, she said she had appealed to King Charles III to release about 30 tonnes of Venezuelan gold held in the United Kingdom under sanctions.
Rodríguez has defended the government's response to the twin earthquakes, vowing that the country would not descend into social unrest.
Her remarks come amid growing public criticism over what many Venezuelans have described as the US-backed government's inadequate initial response to the disaster before international rescue teams arrived.
