From earthquakes of magnitude 4.8 and 4.37, with just three minutes of separation between the two, they shook the southwest area of Puerto Rico at 2:42 and 2:45 am today, Sunday. The Puerto Rico Seismic Network recorded the epicenter of both events in the southeast tip of the Guánica Municipality. A third tremor of magnitude … Read more
From earthquakes of magnitude 4.8 and 4.7, with just three minutes of separation between them, they shook the southwest area of Puerto Rico at 2:42 and 2:45 am today, Sunday, Although the Puerto Rico Seismic Network recorded the event of magnitude 4.8, the portal of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) captured a second magnitude … Read more
The Electric Power Authority (PREPA) hired former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie as an administrative consultant, whose company will charge at a rate of $ 28,750 per month until December, confirmed the deputy executive director of the public corporation, Jaime López. The contract between PREPA and the company Christie 55 Solutions, for the sum of … Read more
The Fiscal Oversight Board (JSF) affirmed this Monday afternoon that the government has not made any request for funds or submitted any plan to respond to the emergency caused in the southwest of the country by the earthquakes that were felt in that area this weekend. The expressions of the entity that controls the finances … Read more
The Food and Nutrition Service of the Federal Department of Agriculture (FNS) approved the disbursement of a special issuance of $ 23.8 million for the beneficiaries of the Nutrition Assistance Program (PAN) in the 25 municipalities affected by the earthquakes. Through a press release, the interim secretary of the Family, Eddie García Fuentes, reported that … Read more
The mayor of Guayanilla, Nelson Torres Yordán, confirmed today that the Secretary of Health, Rafael Rodriguez, called him to “excuse himself and get away” from the expressions of the Secretary of Environmental Health, Mayra Toro, who tried to dissociate himself from his responsibilities before the reports of overflows of sea water and sand by the … Read more
The president of the Union of Workers of the Electricity and Irrigation Industry (Utier), Angel Figueroa JaramilloHe said Friday that the damages in the central Costa Sur can be repaired with internal resources of the Electric Power Authority (PREPA), which would be less expensive than recruiting contractors as intended by the public corporation. According to … Read more
The quake of magnitude 5.0 recorded this morning would force hundreds or thousands of structures to be re-inspected because of the possibility of further damage, the mayor of Guayanilla, Nelson Torres Yordán. “Particularly, many of the yellow and green structures will have to be inspected”, he said in an interview with El Nuevo Día. The … Read more
The Puerto Rico Seismic Network adjusted to 5.0 the magnitude of the tremor that was generated today at 10:45 a.m. 17.16 kilometers south-southeast of Guánica. There is no warning or threat of tsunami for Puerto Rico. According to the entity, the epicenter had a depth of 7 kilometers and was reported as felt throughout the … Read more
Three tremors were recorded tonight in the area known as the Mona Canyon, according to data from the Seismic Network. Another was reported in the Mona Passage. The first, and the strongest, had a magnitude of 4.2 and occurred at 8:02 p.m., 57 kilometers north, north-west of Desecheo. Its latitude was 18.8 degrees north and … Read more