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Terrifying moment 7.2 earthquake in Caracas, Venezuela rocks baseball game

The frightening power of the 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck Caracas, Venezuela on Wednesday was on full display during the first inning of a pro baseball broadcast.

As seen on the country's national baseball league YouTube channel, LMBP TV, players for both the Carabobo Mariners and Caracas Senators scrambled out of their respective dugouts to run to shallow centerfield, where they were safe from any potential falling debris.

Only moments earlier, the Mariners' Bryant Flete was digging in at the plate when the stadium cameras began shaking wildly.

Cables suspending the netting around the backstop could be seen swinging from side to side as the home plate umpire removed his mask and looked upwards towards the press box.

Nobody appears to have been hurt at the stadium, but the panic of the situation is evident from the announcers' voices and their abrupt departure from the booth.

As was later discovered, that quake was just the first of two to hit Caracas on Wednesday, the second of which was measured at 7.5. There are a high number of casualties expected: Currently the US Geological Survey (USGS) is estimating anywhere between 10,000 and 100,000 deaths.

Not only did buildings collapse in Venezuela, but some buildings in the Brazilian Amazon some 1,000 miles away were reportedly evacuated as a result of the earthquakes.

Late Wednesday, acting president Delcy Rodríguez said she was preparing to address the nation.

Rodríguez's failure to address the nation within three hours of the earthquake, while her government did not give a report of injuries or fatalities in that time, was criticized by politicians and Venezuelans. …

https://www.dailymail.com/sport/mlb/article-15927925/Terrifying-moment-7-1-earthquake-Venezuela-rocks-baseball-game-Caracas.html