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 4.7 shaking at 2:45 pm and placed its epicenter at the southeast tip of the Municipality of Guánica.
A third tremor of magnitude 3.53, part of the sequence, was registered by the instruments of the Seismic Network at 3:30 am
The Seismic Network He indicated on his page that there is no tsunami warning, warning or surveillance as a result of the tremor.
According to the information provided by the Seismic Network, the epicenter of the first tremor was registered about six kilometers from the south-southwest coast of Guánica, and about 13 kilometers southeast of Lajas, with a depth of 11 kilometers. Meanwhile, USGS information maintains that the second earthquake occurred at latitude 17,919 degrees north, longitude 66,906 degrees west, at a depth of 9.8 kilometers.
According to the Seismic Network, the 4.8 magnitude tremor had an estimated maximum intensity Level V in Guánica.
For its part, the USGS movement map showed that the tremors were felt in the southern, northern and western municipalities, although people in eastern towns such as Fajardo and Humacao also reported having felt the movement of the earth.
These tremors are the most recent in a series of earthquakes that started in December 2019 and have mainly affected the municipalities in the south and southwest areas. An earthquake of magnitude 4.63 was registered last Tuesday, June 23, although it was registered in the north of the island, near the Mona Canyon.
The sequence began on December 28, 2019 with an earthquake of magnitude 4.7 and another of magnitude 5.0 the next day. Meanwhile, on January 6 there was a tremor of magnitude 5.8, followed by an earthquake of magnitude 6.4 on the morning of January 7.
The tremors have caused damages estimated at $ 8.3 billion, according to the first estimate presented by Governor Wanda Vázquez Garced to the federal government.
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