CARACAS: The powerful twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela last week damaged or destroyed more than 58,000 buildings, according to a preliminary assessment of satellite data published by US space agency NASA. Some 1,700 people were killed and thousands remain missing following the quakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 — the strongest to hit the South American nation in more than a century.

The US Geological Survey estimated more than 10,000 deaths were possible from the magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 quakes, which would place them among Latin America's deadliest of the last…

Satellite images show the before and after of parts of Venezuela left in ruins by two devastating quakes.