Cabot Phillips

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Yeah, Georgia, this is looking like one of the worst natural disasters in recent memory and certainly the worst earthquake to hit Venezuela in the last century.

Within the first 24 hours, the confirmed figures were 188 dead and 1,500 more injured.

but that number is guaranteed to keep rising in the next few days as the rubble starts to be combed through.

These were two quakes that hit back to back, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake followed 39 seconds later by a 7.5, both directly impacting the capital city of Caracas

and a number of smaller coastal cities all around the area.

Scientists say that this kind of doublet earthquake is extremely rare, especially two quakes hitting this close together, just 39 seconds.

And they say the second one released nearly three times as much energy as the first.

And video from the scene is just devastating.

Buildings folding, hotels collapsing.

It was very scary.

Yeah, it's hard right now because cell service in the country is still extremely spotty, so a lot remains unclear.

There is a crowdsourced database that lists at least 50,000 people as missing.

That's coming from family members who have not been able to contact their loved ones.

But that number, again, is unconfirmed.

And with phone networks still down in many areas, we're hoping that many of these missing people could just be temporarily unreachable.

The U.S.

Geological Survey's damage model puts the likely death toll in the thousands, possibly over 10,000.

And which areas were the hardest hit?