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Adriana Loureiro Fernandez, a photographer for The New York Times, describes the scene on the ground after the Venezuelan earthquakes.
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Venezuelans in South Florida were frantically trying to track down friends and relatives after two earthquakes in Venezuela. Jorge Erazo was among the missing.
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;Resize=(620)) Montrealers of Venezuelan descent are living in uncertainty after two earthquakes struck north central Venezuela on Wednesday afternoon. The earthquakes, one a magnitude of 7.2 and the other 7.5, struck just one minute apart, causing widespread devastation and triggering the collapse of several buildings in the capital Caracas.
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Venezuela's pair of earthquakes is considered doublet sequence. It's not rare to have two quakes in short succession, but in this case, that likely led to more destruction.
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It appears the two big earthquakes in Venezuela that occurred in rapid succession may have involved two separate fault lines. Several faults intersect in this tectonically complex region.
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The U.S. Geological Survey has estimated that the death toll from the powerful quakes could range from as many as 10,000 to 100,000.
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Two earthquakes hit Venezuela overnight. One was 7.2 and the other was 7.5 in magnitude. They were among the strongest quakes recorded there in more than a century.
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The shallow quakes occurred within seconds of one another, exacerbating the damage caused.
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Two powerful earthquakes rattled the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday evening, damaging buildings in the capital and briefly triggering a tsunami advisory.
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