Following a magnitude 6.5 earthquake that struck Puerto Rico at about 4:24 a.m. today, another earthquake of magnitude 5.6 affected the island commonwealth at 7:18 a.m. today, while a third — coming in at magnitude 4.8 — shocked residents of the U.S. territory at about 9:00 a.m. There have been reports of damage in Puerto Rico, as multiple residents continue to post about their experience. “We [were] sleeping and we woke up to a noise and lights going on and off.. My fan.. And we got up and [ran]. Some parts in PR buildings collapsed… No lights.. We still have water, radio and internet for now. Please pray for us,” wrote Alondra Vega on the Consortium’s Facebook platform. The National Weather Service’s Tsunami Warning Center cautioned individuals to “be observant and exercise normal caution if you are near or in the ocean in case of minor sea level changes.” The Tsunami Center said there’s no threat of tsunami for Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the British Virgin Islands and the other Caribbean islands affected by the earthquakes. Among them are Dominica, the Bahamas, Saint Martin, Sint Maarten, Haiti, Guadeloupe, Saint Kitts, Nevis, Turks and Caicos Islands, the Caribbean Netherlands, Saint Barthelemy, Antigua and Barbuda, Montserrat and Anguilla. The 9:00 a.m. earthquake was the fourth to affect Puerto Rico since Monday, with three of the four occurring today. On Monday, a 5.8-magnitude earthquake rocked the coastal municipality of Guayanilla about 6:35 a.m. That earthquake destroyed Punta Ventana, one of Puerto Rico most popular tourist destinations.
