Dual Quakes Hit Venezuela, Leaving Hundreds Dead and Trapped
Nature had a brutal holiday plan for Venezuela, and now the international community is scrambling to clean up the mess.
Two back-to-back earthquakes—a 7.2 followed by a 7.5 just seconds later—decimated the northern coast near Caracas. Because it was a holiday, people were home, which turned out to be the worst possible place to be. Over 200 people are currently trapped under the ruins of 250 collapsed buildings, and the death toll is already climbing.
USGS isn't sugarcoating the outlook, suggesting there is a significant statistical chance the final count could reach into the tens of thousands. Marco Rubio has confirmed that the United States is deploying specialized search and rescue teams, including crews from Fairfax County and Los Angeles County, armed with heavy equipment and search dogs.
The real tragedy here is that the rescue effort is hitting a wall because the local hospital system has been crumbling for years. It is a grim reminder that when infrastructure is already hanging by a thread, a disaster doesn't just hit—it obliterates.
Geopolitics rarely takes a day off, but nature usually ignores the legislative calendar entirely.
Source: CNN
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