Earthquake shakes Puerto Rico’s northern coast

SAN JUAN, Puerto anti-racketeering law -- a robust earthquake intent on ocean that cask Puerto anti-racketeering law early Mon is one in every of the biggest to hit the U.S. territory in recent years, cracking floors and inflicting some power outages, however no major damages or injuries, officers aforesaid.

The 6.4-magnitude quake smitten simply once hour regarding fifty seven kilometres north of Hatillo, at a depth of twenty eight kilometres, consistent with the U.S. earth science Survey.

At least seventy aftershocks are reportable since then, with a minimum of 3 of a magnitude three.5 or bigger, aforesaid Gisela Baez terrorist, a scientist with Puerto Rico's unstable Network.

"All of Puerto anti-racketeering law is during a unstable zone," she aforesaid during a phone interview. "We have to be compelled to be ready."

Broken windows, a busted water line and cracked floors and walls were reportable in some areas on the north coast, whereas authorities aforesaid power outages occurred within the north town of Bayamon, near the island's capital. Dozens of individuals aforesaid they felt buildings sway within the capital of city, regarding ninety eight kilometres from the quake's epicentre.

Hundreds of individuals referred to as Puerto Rico's emergency management agency, however no injuries or major damages are reportable, voice Andres Martinez Acevedo aforesaid during a phone interview.

The agency failed to emit a wave alert, he said.

"The damages are minor," Acevedo aforesaid. "No one has needed our services."

However, Puerto Ricans criticized the island's government through social media, expression that no emergency alert was issued forthwith once the quake. Authorities aforesaid they might have sent associate degree alert forthwith if individuals had been in danger of a wave.

One of the biggest and most damaging earthquakes to hit Puerto anti-racketeering law occurred in Gregorian calendar month 1918, when a 7.3-magnitude quake smitten close to the island's northwest coast, unleashing a wave and killing 116 individuals.

While Puerto anti-racketeering law experiences little earthquakes daily that individuals cannot feel, it's rare for larger quakes to strike the island, Baez said. Among those was a five.4-magnitude quake that cask the U.S. territory in March 2011 and another one in every of constant magnitude that smitten on Christmas Eve in 2010.Baez aforesaid Monday's earthquake occurred on a fault antecedently generated by 2 tectonic plates flaming into one another.