High casualties and extensive damage are probable in Venezuela after back-to-back earthquakes rattled the capital and surrounding regions on Wednesday evening, the US Geological Survey (USGS) has stated.
“The disaster is likely widespread” and aftershocks with potentially strong shaking may follow, the USGS noted.
There’s a 44% chance of more than 10,000 fatalities, a 30% chance of more than 100,000, according to the agency. And there’s also a significant risk of landslides and liquefaction on the ground.
Liquefaction is a phenomenon that afflicts loose sediments in an earthquake and is akin to a lateral landslide.
Source: BBC