Venezuela, Colombia quakes raise seismic fears in Peru

Major earthquakes that struck Venezuela and Colombia less than two months apart have renewed concerns about seismic risk in South America.

Recent earthquakes in both countries have exposed sharply different government capacities to respond to disaster.

Devastating earthquakes weeks apart in Venezuela and Colombia have exposed sharply different government capacities to respond to disaster, according to witnesses in both countries, aid workers and a security firm.

A tale of two buildings: how quake rescue efforts differed in Colombia and Venezuela  reuters.com

CALI, Colombia, Aug 15 - At a flattened apartment block known as Los Cocos in northern Venezuela, civilians toiled with little support to pull the living and the dead from the rubble. In neighboring Colombia, when residential towers in Cali collapsed, officials poured in to help.

Israel is one of the four countries, alongside the US, Ecuador, and El Salvador, to have been requested by Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella to send a search-and-rescue team.