Venezuela

Authorities in Venezuela shift focus to reconstruction as the death toll from a rare earthquake doublet rises. Over 50,000 people are estimated to be unaccounted for.

Android smartphones acted as a distributed seismograph network to warn Venezuelans of powerful earthquakes, though the disaster resulted in almost 600 dead.

Twin massive earthquakes have left around 235 dead and 4,300 injured in northern Venezuela, prompting a large international humanitarian response and US aid.