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4 dead, 9 injured [6] Starting on December 28, 2019, [7] and progressing into 2020, the southwestern part of the island of Puerto Rico was struck by an earthquake swarm, [8] including 11 that were of magnitude 5 or greater. [9] The largest and most damaging of this sequence was a magnitude 6.4 Mw, which occurred on January 7 at 04:24 AST (08:24 ...
The last tsunami to cause significant damage in Puerto Rico was on October 11, 1918 which was generated by the 1918 Aguadilla earthquake. There have been more recent tsunami events, such as in 1946, which did not cause significant damage to the island. The last earthquakes to cause loss of life were the 2020 southwestern Puerto Rico sequence of ...
VI ( Strong) Casualties. None. The 2010 Aguas Buenas earthquake, also referred to as the 2010 Christmas Eve earthquake ( Spanish: Temblor de Nochebuena de 2010 ), occurred on December 24 at 7:43 p.m. local time in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico. [1] It measured 5.1 on the moment magnitude scale and had a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI ( Strong ).
Seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones says the Caribbean is prone to seismic activity because the plates under the islands are moving in multiple directions.
Puerto Rico residents spent the night outside sleeping on mattresses, terrified their homes would crumble if another earthquake hit. The island experienced the worst quake in over a century this ...
The Puerto Rico Trench is located on the boundary between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The oceanic trench, the deepest in the Atlantic, is associated with a complex transition between the Lesser Antilles subduction zone to the south and the major transform fault zone or plate boundary, which extends west between Cuba and Hispaniola ...
Puerto Rico is trudging through reconstruction work after two devastating hurricanes and a string of strong earthquakes, and has spent less than 10% of more than $23 billion in available federal ...
The 1918 San Fermín earthquake, [5] [6] also known as the Puerto Rico earthquake of 1918, struck the island of Puerto Rico at 10:14:42 local time on October 11. The earthquake measured 7.1 on the moment magnitude scale and IX ( Violent) on the Mercalli intensity scale. The mainshock epicenter occurred off the northwestern coast of the island ...