Venezuela quake death toll nears 1,500 as rescue teams race against 72-hour window

Nearly 1,500 people killed, 3,150 injured, 12,721 displaced, and approximately 50,000 unaccounted for; multiple children rescued alive from rubble.

In the coastal state of La Guaira, Venezuela, twin earthquakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 have claimed nearly fifteen hundred lives and left tens of thousands unaccounted for, pressing the ancient question of how communities endure catastrophe when the ground itself betrays them. International rescue teams converged on the rubble-strewn coast in a race against the biological limits of human survival, while a nation already hollowed by political crisis and economic hardship struggled to absorb a loss that may ultimately rank among Latin America's worst in a century. The disaster has become a mirr

Venezuela quake death toll nears 1,500 as rescue teams race against 72-hour window

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