The Caribbean island has witnessed a strong of damaging tremors since December 28, but Tuesday's was the strongest.
The entire island is without power, while plants near the epicenter of the quake were damaged, Jose Ortiz, the head of Puerto Rico’s Electric Power authorityPuerto Rico’s governor, Wanda Vazquez Garced,
residents to remain calm and safe. A tsunami alert earlier issued for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands has been cancelled, Garced confirmed.of widespread damage and cracked roads, while Nelson Torres, the mayor of Guayanilla that was affected by a 5.8 earthquake on Monday, said a local church had collapsed.
Puerto Rico’s Punta Ventana coastal rock formation, a famous tourist attraction located near the southern municipality of Guayanilla, collapsed after yesterday’s quake.: The U.S. territory has been hit by a series of damaging tremors over the past week, with the USGS recording more than 400 earthquakes since December 11, 2019. Eleven of those have measured more than 4 on the Richter scale, with the most severe occurring since December 28, 2019.
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