By Julia Symmes Cobb and Sarah Morland CALI, Colombia, Aug 15 (Reuters) - At a flattened apartment block known as Los Cocos ...

Robots slithered like snakes into the rubble of collapsed buildings to search for trapped survivors in the aftermath of Venezuela’s double earthquake disaster.

Verónica Cañas barely had time to grab her 6-year-old son and put on her shoes before running out of her apartment in Caracas. As she ran down the stairs, the walls began to crack and part of the ...

For years, engineers analyzing Venezuela’s construction patterns have voiced a major concern: That the country’s precarious combination of soft ground soil and tall concrete structures — many lacking ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A couple embraces in front of a building destroyed by twin earthquakes that struck La Guaira three days earlier. (AP Photo/Matias ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Authorities have started demolishing buildings damaged by the June 24 earthquakes in the Venezuela (Juan BARRETO) Venezuelan ...

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 ...

Older buildings, substandard construction and geography left many neighborhoods in Venezuela vulnerable to strong earthquakes like the ones that struck the country this week. Engineers and other ...

A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake shook Venezuela on Wednesday evening, collapsing buildings in the capital of Caracas. (AP ...

LA GUAIRA, Venezuela — Venezuelan authorities on Thursday began demolishing buildings in the state of La Guaira, the region worst hit by last month's twin earthquakes, AFP observed. The quakes on June ...