Earthquake Measuring 4.5 on Richter Scale Hits About 70 Miles Off Coast of Culebra This Afternoon

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SAN JUAN — An earthquake registering 4.5 on the Richter Scale struck the ocean floor 69 miles north of Culebra, Puerto Rico this afternoon.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake occurred at 1:54 p.m. local time at a depth of 25 miles underground.

Puerto Rico has had five earthquakes in the past 24 hours, 29 earthquakes in the last seven days, 144 earthquakes in the past 30 days and 1,664 earthquakes in the last 365 days.

An earthquake measuring between 4 and 4.9 on the Richter Scale is considered a “light” earthquake.

https://earthquaketrack.com/p/puerto-rico/recent

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us2000dd70#executive

 

John McCarthy

John F. McCarthy is a veteran journalist in the Caribbean, writing from the "Decision Space" where survival meets the surreal. His reporting steel was tempered by a lineage of legendary editors and broadcasters, including Ed Wynn Brant (The Bomb), Owen Eschenroder (Ann Arbor News), Lynelle Emanuel (BVI Beacon), and Charles Thanas (WSVI-TV). Alongside longtime colleague Kenneth C. "Casey" Clark, McCarthy has navigated the front lines of the territory’s history—from the 1997 volcanic "snow" to every major hurricane since Hugo. Known for leaning out of doorless helicopters to capture the "money shot," McCarthy now edits the V.I. Free Press, providing the essential link between the island's colonial past and its SpaceX future.