"Red alert for shaking-related fatalities and economic losses. High casualties and extensive..."

Both quakes measured over 7.0 magnitude, with tremors being felt as far as more than a thousand miles away in Brazil’s Amazon region.

A 7.2-magnitude earthquake and a 7.5-magnitude were less than a minute apart, said the U.S. Geological Survey. The second earthquake was the largest to hit the country since 1900.

The U.S. Geological Survey warned that \

The quakes are among the strongest to strike Venezuela in more than a century