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Powerful back-to-back earthquakes strike Venezuela · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Two strong earthquakes have hit near Venezuela's capital, Kadrakas. Let's
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  Speaker 1: show you these live images now from the ground in Caracas.
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  Speaker 1: As you can see there we look at what is
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  Speaker 1: looking to be appearing to be a collapsed building. The
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  Speaker 1: first quake had a magnitude of seven point one. That
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  Speaker 1: was followed by a seven point five magnitude quake soon after.
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  Speaker 1: That's according to the US Geological Survey and earlier tsunami
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  Speaker 1: warning has now been canceled for Puerto Rico, the US
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  Speaker 1: Virgin Islands, and the British Virgin Islands. Now, the Geological
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  Speaker 1: Survey says high casualties and extensive damage are probable in
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  Speaker 1: Venezuela after the quake. Residents in neighboring Columbia also reported
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  Speaker 1: filling tremors. Of many Venezuelans were at home celebrating a
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  Speaker 1: public holiday. We understand when the quake hit. Let's bring
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  Speaker 1: in our correspondent Will Grant, who is monitoring the situation
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  Speaker 1: for us from Mexico City. Will, good to see you.
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  Speaker 1: Just bring us up to date on what you've been hearing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it sounds like they were quinn and both very
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  Speaker 2: hard earthquakes, very strong earthquakes truly rattled the capital, Kadakas,
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  Speaker 2: as you said, felt as far afield as Bogota. Tsunami
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  Speaker 2: warnings initially for parts of the Caribbean, including Boneide and
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  Speaker 2: ad Ubert now thankfully been lifted for residents in those
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  Speaker 2: parts of the world, but of course in Kadakas, people
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  Speaker 2: still unsure if all of their family members are safe
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  Speaker 2: and well. There are people who have cracked and damaged
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  Speaker 2: buildings and therefore are still in the streets and very
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  Speaker 2: fearful of the potential after shocks, too scared essentially to
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  Speaker 2: go back into their apartment buildings. And of course people
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  Speaker 2: also of course trying to get in touch with family
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  Speaker 2: members in the affected state of Kadaboble and trying to
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  Speaker 2: establish just how bad matters are there. The Interior Minister,
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  Speaker 2: they of dal Cave, has been on state television and
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  Speaker 2: said that there are downed buildings, that some buildings have collapsed,
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  Speaker 2: but we don't know if there are people inside them
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  Speaker 2: at the time, or just how bad things are. We're
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  Speaker 2: still trying to establish just how bleak the picture is.
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  Speaker 1: Indeed, well that's it looks like what we're looking at
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  Speaker 1: right now. From these images we were getting at the
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  Speaker 1: moment from Karakas emergency services. On hand, I just want
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  Speaker 1: to ask you before we let you go, what do
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  Speaker 1: we know about this region where these quakes have struck.
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  Speaker 2: Well at Karaboro is an important state, it's upon economic
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  Speaker 2: motor for the country. It includes the city of Valencia.
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  Speaker 2: Now I've been to that part of Venezuela a number
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  Speaker 2: of times. Buildings are reasonably robust, but of course across Venezuela,
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  Speaker 2: particularly the rural parts where there are a lot of shacks,
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  Speaker 2: and of course sor the thronging the capital Karrakas, there
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  Speaker 2: are these shanty towns, the barrios, the famous barrios of Caracas,
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  Speaker 2: where the homes are very poorly constructed, very flimsy, often
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  Speaker 2: just brick shacks. So there's plenty of potential for widespread damage. Again,
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  Speaker 2: I think we will start getting updates reasonably soon from
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  Speaker 2: the authorities, such as sort of the KLAMA for information
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  Speaker 2: and the potential for disinformation on social media at a
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  Speaker 2: time like.
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  Speaker 1: This, Yeah, of course, Okay, well, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 1: From Mexico City, they're monitoring the situation for us there
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  Speaker 1: and we'll just continue to look at some of those
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  Speaker 1: live pictures from Caracas if we can. That is the
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  Speaker 1: image that we have at this hour. Of course it
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  Speaker 1: is dark. You see emergency services on hand and just
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  Speaker 1: the rubble there of what appears to be a building
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  Speaker 1: in the capitol. We don't have any information, as Will
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  Speaker 1: said there yet about injuries, about possible casualties if anyone
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  Speaker 1: was in these buildings that have been downed, as confirmed
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  Speaker 1: by the Interior Ministry. As we said, the first quake
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  Speaker 1: a magnitude of seven point one, followed by a seven
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  Speaker 1: point five magnitude quakes soon after. Certainly good news that
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  Speaker 1: that initial tsunami warning that had been issued for Puerto
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  Speaker 1: Rico and Bonaire that has now been recalled as we understand,
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  Speaker 1: But at this moment we're waiting to hear some more
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  Speaker 1: information about what indeed has happened. The BBC's Vanessa Silva
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  Speaker 1: was able to sent us this report from Karakas itself.
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  Speaker 3: I'm in the center of the city of Karakas, where
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  Speaker 3: a lot of buildings are without power electricity after the
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  Speaker 3: airthquake got hit the north of the Venezuela around six
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  Speaker 3: in the afternoon today. A lot of people are trying
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  Speaker 3: to look how to go back to their homes. The
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  Speaker 3: metro system is completely closed all these stations, so it
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  Speaker 3: was just at the time that people were getting all
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  Speaker 3: the words before even that today is a holiday lay
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  Speaker 3: in Kalaka, Venezuela. All the scripture jakes very strong in
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  Speaker 3: the capital. In my home, I can see how many
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  Speaker 3: things fell down. I'm broken in my building, I neighborhood,
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  Speaker 3: one of my neighborhoods. She fell down and break her arms.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know at this moment how many victims, but
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  Speaker 3: we can see videos coming from social media from infrastructure
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  Speaker 3: collapses in the city and the news will be coming
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  Speaker 3: on in the next hours.