MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 22nd August, 2018) The upper five floors of the 620-feet-tall unfinished skyscraper, known as the Tower of David, in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas, dramatically tilted after a strong earthquake in the region, local media reported Tuesday.
At 21:31 GMT on Tuesday, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurred in the northern Venezuelan state of Sucre, European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) reported.
The country's officials are planning to deploy a drone to assess the integrity of the structure, the NTN24 broadcaster reported.
"We are preparing, because the Tower of David is an old building, and it has cracked on the upper floors, it can collapse from any movement," civil protection chief of the city's Libertador municipality, Hernan Mateo, was quoted by the broadcaster as saying.
The earthquake was felt all over the country. The eyewitness footage shows that walls of some houses were covered with huge cracks and even partially collapsed after the earthquake.
The construction of the Tower of David, currently Venezuela's third tallest building, began in 1990. After the building's main investor David Brillembourg's death from cancer in 1993 and the banking crisis of 1994, the building was transferred under state control, and the construction has been suspended since.
