(Corrects June 30 story to reflect attribution of data for damaged buildings in paragraph 23 and second bullet point to researchers, not NASA)By Julia Symmes Cobb and Leonardo Fernandez ViloriaLA GUAIRA, Venezuela, June 30 (Reuters) – More than 100 people stood silently on Tuesday in the road alongside what used to be the Los Cocos public housing complex in Venezuela’s La Guaira state.For 10 minutes, interrupted only by the occasional cellphone ring or shout from a rescuer, people strained their ears for any sound of survivors of the twin earthquakes that last week destroyed six of the eight towers that made up the Hugo Chavez complex, known colloquially as Los Cocos.AdvertisementAdvertisementThen a horn sounded, and pickaxes and voices sprang to life, as the arduous search began anew.Rescuers at Los Cocos hope there are still survivors to be found on what used to be the ground floor, but they were also seeking the dead.In one area, national police and a paramedic pulled the blackened body of a woman free from the rubble, wedging out her legs as her dark curly hair hung into the debris below her. A family member stood nearby, trying by phone to find a relative to accompany the body to the morgue.At what used to be Building 27, rescuers, including those from Mexico’s Topos team, tunneled through debris to the bottom floor, helped by young olive-green-clad cadets from Venezuela’s army.AdvertisementAdvertisement”Silence!” a voice rang out from another nearby tunnel and fists shot into the air — a signal for quiet.After a few minutes, a man at the top of a mound shouted, “There are people!”The digging resumed.LOSING HOPERescue teams from Ecuador and the U.S. halted operations in the early hours of Tuesday at a site in Macuto, a town in La Guaira, when they st …
