Secretary of State Marco Rubio promised: "We have a whole-of-government response. It'll be big; it'll be fast; and it'll be effective."

If you want to help, an aid expert advises you to donate cash to nonprofits involved in local rescue and recovery efforts.

"It makes no sense to send Venezuelans to a country that is a disaster zone where the authorities basically cannot cope with the tragedy."

A rare sequence of two powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela just 39 seconds apart on Wednesday, triggering tsunami alerts across parts of the Caribbean and causing widespread disruption. Search-and-rescue operations carried on through the night as emergency crews worked through damaged buildings,

Venezuelan American journalist Mariana Atencio discusses the deadly earthquakes in Venezuela and the threat of people losing their protected status in the U.S.

Twin earthquakes expose the deadly cost of a system built on lies. Marian Da Silva Parra is a human rights lawyer and a postdoctoral research scholar at Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Institute.

Firefighters are using cellphone lights because of a flashlight shortage, and an overwhelmed hospital in the disaster zone is operating without running water, one doctor said.

The United States has launched a massive response to Venezuela's earthquake disaster, but before aid can flow in at full scale, officials say a critical obstacle must be overcome: repairing the country's heavily damaged airports to allow large military cargo planes to land.

Record stress along the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults could trigger a major earthquake around Los Angeles.