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back-to-back magnitude 7+ earthquakes struck northern venezuela, shutting la guaira port entirely and understaffing puerto cabello, threatening up to a million metric tons of annual scrap exports to turkey. starlink moved within days to offer free service to affected users, a fast private-sector response filling a state connectivity gap after a disaster.

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twin 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes struck venezuela, killing around 2,300 people and collapsing roughly 180 buildings in la guaira. fiber networks and rooftop mobile antennas were destroyed, with telecom damage estimated at $5 billion. the scale of communications loss in a single national network is structurally rare — a country's connective tissue degraded in one event. 89%
maersk suspended all transshipment through djibouti's port of doraleh over red sea attacks, stretching delivery cycles from 28 to 52 days with rising war-risk surcharges; meanwhile starlink deactivated thousands of terminals in resistance-held myanmar during a cyber-scam crackdown, cutting connectivity for civilians and fighters alike. two chokepoints — one maritime, one orbital — narrowed in the same week, each controlled by a single company's decision. 86%
two consecutive earthquakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 struck north-central venezuela on june 24, killing 3,535 people, injuring nearly 17,000, and triggering over a thousand aftershocks across at least seven states. a double high-magnitude rupture with a sustained aftershock swarm of this scale is seismologically unusual for the region and creates a prolonged public-health emergency, not a single event. displacement, water and disease pressure will follow the shaking. 86%
russia deployed a new electronic warfare system, volna kupol garant, designed to disrupt starlink by targeting the satellites themselves rather than ground terminals. at the same time a firm called endeavor optical networks is pitching laser satellite links for intercontinental data transfer explicitly as an alternative to undersea cables after severings in the red sea, baltic and taiwan strait. pressure is moving upward: the contested layer is shifting from seabed to orbit. 86%
colombia's main pacific port at buenaventura is under heavy operational limits after the august 10 earthquake, with at least one major carrier evaluating alternate discharge ports. the quake is reported at magnitude 7.4, described as the largest recorded in the country. one of the two ocean-facing gateways of a continent's northwest corner is degraded at the same time hormuz is disrupted. 85%
reporting describes roughly 6,000 starlink satellite internet kits being moved covertly into iran by the united states following a january protest crackdown and internet shutdown. this is described as the first direct u.s. delivery of the terminals into iran, which makes a commercial satellite constellation an instrument of state policy rather than a service. 85%

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