A 7.5-magnitude earthquake has caused widespread destruction in Venezuela. Video footage on social media shows houses collapsing and people panicking.

In the absence of government help, ordinary Venezuelans dug barehanded through the rubble of the week's earthquakes for loved ones.

“It washed away my whole house. I couldn’t recover anything from my house. At that moment I could only think about my family that was sleeping inside the house. Thank God my guardian angel told me to come back home. That’s what I did, I saved my ...