On Three Kings Day 2020 Puerto Rico trembled. An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 on the Ritcher scale shook the residents of the island in the early morning of January 6. Less than 24 hours later, the ...

The earthquakes along the southern coast of Puerto Rico could cost the island up to $3.1 billion in economic losses, according to Chuck Watson, an analyst with Enki, a disaster research group. The ...

Field surveys conducted in the days after the 7 January 2020 Puerto Rico earthquake documented more than 300 landslides and severe liquefaction in southern coastal regions, according to a new study.

A series of earthquakes in Puerto Rico on Thursday ranged from magnitude 2.1 to a preliminary magnitude of 4.8 on the Richter scale. The Puerto Rico Seismic Network, Red Sísmica, has recorded earth ...

President Trump has signed off on Puerto Rico's request for a major disaster declaration that will release more than $3 billion in recovery funds. The move offers aid to parts of the island that were ...

From the early hours of the morning of Thursday, December 24, a series of earthquakes were registered in Puerto Rico from magnitude 2.1 to the most recent at 12 p.m. (Puerto Rico time) of a ...

In Puerto Rico, local communities are mobilizing to help in recovery efforts for those hardest hit by several large earthquakes over the past couple of weeks. The biggest struck last Tuesday with a ...

A 5.0 magnitude earthquake hit southern Puerto Rico on Saturday at a shallow depth, raising concerns about unstable infrastructure in a region that has been hit by quakes every day for nearly a month.

Puerto Rico is under a state of emergency following two days of powerful earthquakes. At least one death has been reported following those earthquakes, and Wednesday morning there are widespread power ...

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