The recent Venezuela earthquakes caused many apartment towers and residential buildings to pancake, but there is no single confirmed total for how many ā€œpancake buildingsā€ there were yet. Reports say dozens of videos and satellite images show multiple collapsed multistory buildings, with some coverage describing ā€œseveralā€ towers and ā€œscoresā€ of buildings damaged or collapsed.

What is known

  • CNN said it verified dozens of videos showing residential towers that had pancaked.
  • AP reported scores of multistory buildings collapsed and that around one-third of nearly 30,000 structures in Catia La Mar were damaged.
  • ABC and Reuters coverage described widespread collapse and rescue operations, but did not give one official count of pancake-style buildings.

Why the number is unclear

ā€œPancake collapseā€ is a structural description, not a formal disaster- statistics category, so officials usually count collapsed, damaged, or destroyed buildings instead. That means the total can change as rescue teams, engineers, and satellite analysts keep assessing the area.

Practical takeaway

If you want the safest plain-English answer: at least several, likely many dozens, but no authoritative final number has been published yet.