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Venezuela earthquakes: death toll rises again to more than 1,400 The GuardianMultiple Earthquakes Devastate Venezuela JW.ORG'We need help': Venezuelans furious at slow official response to quakes YahooFrustration grows in Venezuela as earthquake death toll reaches 1,430 AP NewsBefore Venezuela earthquakes, engineers warned tall buildings could collapse atop
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For years, engineers worried about how collapse-prone Venezuela's buildings could be in an earthquake. The big problem, they warned, was the prevalence of tall concrete buildings atop soft soils — the kind that amplify shaking when an earthquake strikes.
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NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Cesar Jimenez, an aid worker with Project Hope in Venezuela, which is responding to the aftermath of this week's earthquakes.
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