One person is dead following the second powerful earthquake in two days has knocked out power across Puerto Rico this morning. A major power plant on the south side of the island was damaged today. https://youtu.be/Srzg75HdwLY A magnitude 5.8 quake was reported this morning, just hours after a magnitude 6.4 quake about six miles south of Indios, on Puerto Rico’s southwest coast. That’s the same area where a magnitude 5.8 quake hit Monday morning. The island nation is still reeling from Hurricane Maria.
NEW: 6.5-magnitude earthquake strikes Puerto Rico, per USGS. https://t.co/ASDemLnGNn pic.twitter.com/tMcI36l1Lh
— ABC News (@ABC) January 7, 2020
That’s the same area where a magnitude 5.8 quake hit Monday morning. There’s no word on damage from today’s quake.