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Venezuela earthquakes add tragic new layer to the country’s humanitarian crisis

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par Julia Buxton, Professor in the School of Law and Justice Studies, Liverpool John Moores University

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.

From an epicentre in the north-western city of San Felipe, the impact sheared down Venezuela’s…

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