Venezuela has a well-documented vulnerability to earthquakes. The country sits on the boundary between the Caribbean and South American tectonic plates, resulting in routine tremors and causing historical earthquake disasters. But the experience of a "doublet," a pair of 7.2- and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes 40 seconds apart, on June 24 was a rare misfortune.

The country is still reeling from devastating pair of earthquakes that killed hundreds of people earlier this week.

Recorded as one of the strongest natural catastrophes to sit the South American nation in over a century, Venezuelans struggle to pick the pieces as aid comes. | World News