Experts say the first 72 hours after natural disasters define the narrow window for rescuing the living. After that the search usually becomes one of recovering bodies.

Residents dig through rubble to save relatives and neighbours

Rescuers on Friday worked through rubble with heavy machinery and bare hands in a desperate effort to find survivors after twin earthquakes struck...

Experts say the first three days following a serious quake often determine how many lives can still be saved.

Rescuers used heavy machinery and their bare hands on Friday in a race to save survivors of twin earthquakes in Venezuela that killed at least 235 people, hurt thousands and…

Foreign rescue teams and aid were arriving on Friday in Venezuela nearly two days after devastating twin earthquakes flattened areas in and around the capital Caracas, forcing…

The government said 172 people remained trapped, 920 were dead and 3,360 injured while a website listed more than 50,000 people reported missing. | World News

Desperate Venezuelans and rescue teams raced to find survivors on Friday as the death toll from twin earthquakes rose above 900, with foreign rescue teams and aid only beginning…

Venezuela earthquake: Civilians have resorted to forming their own search and rescue teams as international relief pours in from multiple agencies. | World News

At least 920 people are dead, but one estimate has more than 51,000 others missing

At least 920 people are confirmed dead and more than 51,000 missing after two quakes struck Venezuela on Wednesday.

Death toll from Venezuela earthquakes is rising as aid agencies consider the first 48 to 72 hours to be a crucial time frame to retrieve people alive.

Venezuela's earthquake death toll reaches 1,430 as rescuers search for 68,900 missing amid escalating humanitarian crisis.

The death toll from two earthquakes in Venezuela has climbed beyond 1,400, as searches for survivors intensify during the remaining hours of the window for survival.

Some 2,200 rescue workers from 27 countries have been deployed to Venezuela to locate people trapped under the rubble following the twin earthquakes on Wednesday, in a deployment…

Rescue teams are desperately searching for survivors in Venezuela following devastating earthquakes that have claimed nearly 1,500 lives. Foreign aid is pouring in as efforts…

UN estimates damage from the disaster at $6.7bn

Families and volunteers have spent days pulling survivors and bodies from rubble

More than three days after twin earthquakes devastated Venezuela, the critical 72-hour "golden window" for rescuing survivors trapped beneath the rubble has passed, dimming hopes…

Rescue teams searched desperately for survivors in Venezuela on Sunday as the death toll from two powerful earthquakes climbed to 1,430, with hopes of...

Rescue teams searched desperately for survivors in Venezuela on Sunday as the death toll from two powerful earthquakes climbed to 1,430, with hopes of...