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- The United States deployed 900 military personnel to Venezuela to assist with earthquake relief and rescue operations.
- The twin earthquakes have killed at least 1,943 people, injured 10,571, and left over 40,600 missing.
- Doctors warn that untreated wounds and rising infections pose the greatest health risk to survivors in crowded shelters lacking clean water.
- U.N. agencies estimate the quakes produced 1.2 million tons of debris and over $6.7 billion in material damage.
