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Here's a look at some of the major developments since major back-to-back earthquakes rocked Venezuela on June 24, devastating parts of a country already reeling from crisis after crisis. (Image credit: Ariana Cubillos)

Here's a look at some of the major developments since major back-to-back earthquakes rocked Venezuela on June 24, devastating parts of a country already reeling from crisis after crisis.

(Image credit: Ariana Cubillos)

Residents on Tuesday search through the rubble of a building that collapsed in the June 24 earthquakes in La Guaira, Venezuela. Ariana Cubillos/AP hide caption

It's been a week since Venezuela's worst earthquake disaster in over a century. Thousands of people are feared dead, with the official death toll continuing to rise as hope fades of finding survivors in the rubble.

The South American country now faces a humanitarian catastrophe — on top of the deep crises it was already dealing with before the quakes.

Here's a look at some of the major developments since the evening when tragedy struck.

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A soaring toll from Venezuela's double quakes