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'Venezuela is an earthquake-prone country; 80% of the population lives above the most active faults'
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As the provisional death toll from the twin earthquakes that struck the country's Northwest on Wednesday reaches 920, Feliciano De Santis, president of the Venezuelan Geological Society, told Le Monde that strong aftershocks are likely.
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