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2019–20 Puerto Rico earthquakes. 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: ...
Felt throughout Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and the US and British Islands. It is colloquially known as the 2010 Moca earthquake. It caused minor damage in the western and northwestern regions of Puerto Rico, and a minor landslide that affected a portion of PR-111. It is the largest Puerto Rican earthquake to have occurred on land in ...
1970 – Caribbean–Azores hurricane struck Puerto Rico as a tropical depression, it was the wettest tropical cyclone on record to affect Puerto Rico. [90] The depression left 10,000 people homeless across Puerto Rico, [91] with 3,000 housed in emergency shelters in San Juan. [92] At least 600 houses were destroyed and another 1,000 damaged. [93]
As of 11 p.m. ET, Ernesto had left Puerto Rico well behind and was 175 miles northeast of Grand Turk island, according to the National Hurricane Center. The storm was about 690 miles south ...
Limited, localized. 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).
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 ...
1787 Boricua earthquake. The 1787 Boricua earthquake struck offshore of the island of Puerto Rico on May 2. The magnitude of the earthquake was believed to have been around 8.0–8.25, however there is evidence that it was only about 6.9. [1] The epicenter is thought to have been somewhere north of Puerto Rico, probably on the Puerto Rico ...
The Bureau for Emergency Management and Disaster Administration — Spanish: Negociado para el Manejo de Emergencias y Administración de Desastres — is the agency of the executive branch of the government of Puerto Rico that oversees all emergency activities that occur in Puerto Rico. Its mission is to coordinate all the resources of the ...