The death toll from the earthquakes in Venezuela has risen to one thousand four hundred and thirty, with nearly sixty-nine thousand people still missing, according to the country's National Assembly leader Jorge Rodriguez.
More than thirty international search and rescue teams are working in the rubble, while the United States has committed a hundred and fifty million dollars in aid and is preparing a further package worth hundreds of millions more.
The earthquakes — the most powerful to hit the country in more than a century — were shallow, meaning their destructive force was concentrated near the surface.
Finlay Adams Brown is a global disaster management co-ordinator working in the humanitarian aid sector.
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