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Emergency appeal for people affected by the catastrophic earthquakes in Venezuela

Emergency appeal for people affected by the catastrophic earthquakes in Venezuela
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. The scale of the destruction is catastrophic. Buildings were reduced to rubble in minutes following two back-to-back earthquakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 which struck close to Venezuela’s capital city, Caracas just after 6pm local time on Wednesday 24 June. The second earthquake was the strongest