Venezuela declares emergency after twin 7.5-magnitude earthquakes collapse buildings in Caracas

At least two buildings completely collapsed in Caracas; 18 people rescued alive; death toll unknown but USGS estimates high probability of thousands of fatalities.

On the evening of Venezuela's national holiday, the earth beneath Caracas broke twice in less than a minute — a 7.2 followed swiftly by a 7.5 — turning a day of historical celebration into one of modern catastrophe. Buildings fell in the capital, thousands poured into the streets, and a government already navigating extraordinary political upheaval found itself facing a disaster whose full dimensions remain, for now, unknowable. The USGS places the probability of mass casualties in the tens of thousands, a figure that hangs over the city like an aftershock yet to arrive. In the long story of n

Venezuela declares emergency after twin 7.5-magnitude earthquakes collapse buildings in Caracas

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