On Wednesday evening, Venezuela was hit with its largest tremors in more than a century — toppling buildings and claiming more than 100 lives. The event, according to the US Geological Survey, was a rare phenomenon called a “doublet” that contained not one but two major earthquakes.

At around 6pm local time, two earthquakes struck the same part of Venezuela in quick succession.

A quake of magnitude 7.2 hit around 160 km (100 miles) west of Caracas, followed by an even stronger quake less than a minute later, the largest to hit the country in more than a century, news agency ...

Video shows a 5.6-magnitude earthquake knocking items off store shelves in Northern California. Nearly 1,500 people have been injured after two seven-plus magnitude shallow quakes hit seconds apart. Sir Keir,