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The government of Venezuela has launched the “Ven App” for rescue efforts following back-to-back earthquakes in the country. teleSUR

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00:00Well, you have the images of the population from Chacao municipality guarding themselves and finding shelter in the open side
00:09of this square to avoid photo dangers that can come from falling debris after buildings already damaged by the initial
00:21earthquakes can be shaken once again by aftershocks.
00:28According to the official Geological Monitoring Authorities across the region, the massive energy release from the fault line was so
00:34intense that the physical movements propagated across international borders,
00:38fared clearly by populations in neighboring Colombia as well as the islands of Curacao, Aruba and the wider Dutch Caribbean
00:45territory.
00:46In Caracas, the intense physical vibration caused widespread alarm, prompting hundreds of citizens to rapidly evacuate residential complexes, commercial towers
00:55and public buildings to minimize physical risks from falling structural elements and to guard against the imminent threat of potential
01:02aftershocks.
01:05As a result of the significant energy displacement caused by these twin seismic shocks in the southern Caribbean, the Pacific
01:13Tsunami Warning Center took immediate action by issuing tsunami alerts in the northern coast of Venezuela as well as in
01:23the islands surrounding,
01:24including Curacao, Aruba and the Dominican Republic in Puerto Rico as well as in Jamaica.
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