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Quake-stunned Puerto Rico hit by another 5.9-magnitude shock – NBC News, NBC News

Quake-stunned Puerto Rico hit by another 5.9-magnitude shock – NBC News, NBC News


A magnitude 5.9 shock hit Puerto Rico on Saturday morning as theisland’s residents were already reelingfrom a series of major quakes this week, including one on Tuesday that was the biggest in a century.

The latest quake, which came around 9 am local time, has caused even further damage, mainly in areas around the southern coast wherehundreds of homes and schools had already collapsedfrom the Tuesday temblor that had a magnitude of 6.4.

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Saturday’s quake, which was initially calculated at magnitude 6.0, also left roughly 5, 000customers without power, according to the island’s power authority.

Witnesses said the temblor caused concrete debris from damaged buildings to topple into the streets, mainly around the southern area.

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Randy Baldwin, a geophysicist at the US Geological Survey, said that the 6.0 magnitude quake is considered an aftershock along with several other 5.0 magnitude aftershocks overnight.

“The one this morning is the strongest one” since the big earthquake on Tuesday.

Hundreds of quakes and aftershocks have shaken the island since the new year,

according toUS Geological Survey data.

While the epicenter of the latest quake was centered off island’s southern coast, its tremors were felt as far north as San Juan. People in the island’s capital city felt a shock that lasted about and 15 seconds.

The latest quake comes as thousands of people across the island, mainly in southern towns, have been sleeping outdoors since Tuesday.

Many people whose homes have collapsed orwho fear their houses could crumble with another aftershockhave sought refuge in government-run outdoor shelters. Others take their beds to the sidewalk to sleep outside their homes until dawn.

Some others have moved in with relatives in towns further away from the most-damaged areas.

Telemundo Puerto Rico reportedthat people in an outdoor shelter in the Peñuelas ran for their lives after the Saturday morning temblor triggered a landslide. In the town of Ponce, part of an s historic building collapsed, and streets in the southern part of Guánica ruptured.

So far, at leastone person has diedand nine others have been injured as a result of theseismic activitythis week.

******************************************************Nicole Acevedo**********************************

Nicole Acevedo is a staff reporter at NBC News Digital where she reports, writes and produces content for NBC Latino and NBCNews.com.

Mi chelle Acevedo and Shaquille Brewster

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