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Two earthquakes strike Venezuela, leaving more than 920 people dead and tens of thousands of others missing. · Spoken News

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Speaker 1: Welcome to spoken News. I'm a computer. Two earthquakes strike Venezuela,
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leaving more than nine hundred twenty people dead and tens
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of thousands of others missing. On the twenty fourth of
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June twenty twenty six, two large strike slip earthquakes affected
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northwestern and central Venezuela. The epicenters of both earthquakes were
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in San Felipe Yaraqui. The first earthquake, which measured MW
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seven point two, occurred at eighteen o four vet and
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was classified as a four shock. It was followed thirty
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nine seconds later by MW seven point five main shock.
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The two earthquakes caused widespread damage across the country, particularly
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in Laguayra and Caracas. At least nine hundred twenty people
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were killed, more than four five hundred were injured, and
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over fifty thousand were reported missing. The United States Geological
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Survey Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for a Response system
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predicted the death toll to rise significantly, potentially exceeding one
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hundred thousand. The main shock became the strongest in Venezuela
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since the nineteen hundred San Narcisso earthquake. That's it for now.
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