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People walk among the rubble of collapsed buildings in La Guaira, Venezuela, 25 June 2026. Ronald Pena R / EPA Images More than 500 people have been killed in Venezuela following powerful back-to-back ...

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Survivors of the catastrophic earthquakes in Venezuela — including a journalist who was in a Caracas elevator when the first temblor struck — recounted scenes of devastation as "everything collapsed." ...

CNN reviewed and verified dozens of videos from Venezuela’s two deadly earthquakes and found many residential towers had ‘pancaked.’ But why is it so lethal when buildings collapse this way?

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