at 00:27 December 15, 2020 UTC, Location: Epicenter at 17.946, -66.962 People took to the streets starting in mid-January to call for the resignation of Governor Wanda Vásquez Garced and the President of the Senate Thomas Rivera Schatz after supplies meant for victims of Hurricane Maria were found collecting dust in several warehouses. It’s the latest of a series of constant earthquakes that have struck the region this month. Yauco Twitter. According to Alicea, these repairs are straightforward and can be done within six to eight weeks with the required resources. A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck Puerto Rico before dawn on Tuesday, the largest in a series of quakes that have struck the U.S. territory in recent days and caused heavy damage in some areas. at 13:23 December 15, 2020 UTC, Location: Keleher, who is charged with corruption, bribery, and fraud, is now under investigation for giving away school land in San Juan to a developer in exchange for an apartment in a gentrifying neighborhood that she lived in for six months for $1 a month before buying it below market value. Puerto Rico's public utility, PREPA said 99% of its customers' electricity has been restored following last week's 6.4 earthquake. This has had a devastating impact on many sectors including health, communication, electrical, as well as education. Guánica The disasters have been worsened by the government’s lack of response to the earthquake’s devastation — especially on the island’s schools. As educators and students plan to go back to school, they are haunted by the images of the Agripina Seda School, which collapsed while students were on break for the holidays. Epicenter at 18.036, -66.806 2020-12-15 00:27:03 UTC (46.2 miles), Today Epicenter at 17.942, -66.968 Other earthquakes in the greater epicenter area Strongest earthquakes (since 1900) within a 150 km radius from this earthquake Aftershock Forecast The forecast for Jan. 10 indicates the likelihood of large magnitude aftershocks continues to decrease as we move further away from the Jan. 7, 2020, M 6.4 earthquake. A 5.2 magnitude earthquake rattled Puerto Rico Wednesday morning. The January 7, 2020, M 6.4 earthquake offshore of southwest Puerto Rico occurred as the result of oblique normal faulting at shallow depth. Epicenter at 18.008, -66.845 Epicenter at 17.965, -66.943 And now there’s a new wave of struggle on the island calling for the resignation of government officials who have failed — yet again — to meet the needs of people who lost everything in a natural disaster. According to the College of Engineers and Surveyors, the Agripina Seda School collapsed due to a cost-saving construction shortcut called a “short column” which buckles instead of bending in the case of an earthquake. 2020-12-15 05:25:07 UTC (8.2 miles), Today Email. After earthquakes, Puerto Rico’s major power plant to stay dark. A 5.2 magnitude aftershock hit Puerto Rico's southern coast on Friday afternoon, days after an earthquake shook the island and left much of it without power. 9.2 km from Puerto Rico has been repeatedly battered with hurricanes and, most recently, massive earthquakes. Epicenter at 18.522, -68.8 There’s an unlimited budget for repression, but when it comes to financing our schools they claim bankruptcy.”, “We can’t be trembling with fear and anguish every time the earth shakes out of fear that our children’s school might collapse,” science teacher Anés Cedeño Soto told me. Subscribe to ad-free EarthquakeTrack Plus for the best earthquake tracking experience plus additional features and subscriber-only perks. at 08:17 December 15, 2020 UTC, Location: Guayanilla They are paying $1,200 per school for subcontractors to conduct walk-through inspections that assess visible signs of structural damage from past earthquakes. (1.2 miles), 2020-12-14 19:42:25 UTC Unfortunately, the DOE has a different plan in mind. In his own unofficial inspection, he identified the school’s short-column design and recommended that the school be repaired before being used again. We have seen [in this most recent government scandal] that the government could spend $10,000 a month to warehouse supplies which were supposed to be distributed after Hurricane Maria. “The problem is a lack of transparency, not a lack of funds,” twelfth-grade physics teacher Hugo J Delgado-Martí told me. 2020-12-15 19:31:16 UTC 2020-12-15 11:34:09 UTC Puerto Rico’s southern coast was hit with a 6.5 magnitude earthquake. 2020-12-15 19:44:12 UTC at 02:10 December 15, 2020 UTC, Location: Brenas 3.2 km from Incredibly, the now-collapsed Agripina Seda School passed this kind of inspection the day before it collapsed. If this defect hasn’t been fixed yet, the structures simply shouldn’t be used under any circumstances,” Juan F. Alicea, the president of the College of Engineers and Surveyors, told Primera Hora. 2020-12-15 07:27:16 UTC (47.2 miles), Today Epicenter at 17.951, -66.941 Puerto Rico is struggling to recover after the island’s strongest earthquake in 100 years. at 10:13 December 15, 2020 UTC, Location: Puerto Rico has had: (M1.5 or greater) 14 earthquakes in the past 24 hours 100 earthquakes in the past 7 days; 454 earthquakes in the past 30 days; 9,434 earthquakes in the past 365 days If there aren’t any cracks, it means that the previous earthquake didn’t cause damage, but [based on that kind of inspection] I cannot guarantee that it can resist a bigger or future earthquake. at 09:28 December 15, 2020 UTC, Location: (1.2 miles), Today Between 2017 and 2018 the DOE under twice-indicted ex–secretary of education Julia Keleher spent millions of dollars on school inspections. (11.2 miles), Today Epicenter at 17.997, -66.493 The ground in southwest Puerto Rico has been shaking since Dec. 28, with more than 1,280 earthquakes, of which more than 100 were felt and more than 70 were of magnitude 3.5 or greater. 9.2 km from “All faculty and personnel need at least five days of preparation and training in order to get up to speed with the new reality in schools and in order to establish and roll out protocol for the case of another emergency,” explained the president of the National Union of Educators and Education Workers (UNETE), Liza Fournier Córdova, who is also an elementary school English teacher. 14.2 km from Guánica (5.2 miles), Today Epicenter at 17.944, -66.916 Hundreds of other Puerto Rican schools have this defect and could collapse as a result of another strong earthquake. Potala Pastillo Puerto Rico’s Disasters After the Earthquakes, Get a $20 discounted print subscription today, The CIA’s Secret Global War Against the Left. Crews are inspecting buildings in Puerto Rico to make sure they're safe after a magnitude 6.0 earthquake hit near the island last night. (3.2 miles), Today In response to the pandemic, Direct Relief has been providing personal protective equipment, intensive-care unit supplies, and tents for triage and testing to hospitals and health centers. . She writes and translates frequently about labor and social movements in Puerto Rico. The latest in a series of earthquakes and aftershocks struck off the southwest coast of Puerto Rico just before 9:00 a.m. on Saturday morning. (3.2 miles), Today The US Geological Survey said the recent earthquake was an aftershock of a 6.4-magnitude tremor that struck Puerto Rico in January. Today (0.2 miles), Today (3.2 miles), Today at 09:53 December 14, 2020 UTC, Location: Martínez Padilla, who has been collecting reports from schools all over the island, explained, “These certifications are a disaster, a completely botched job. 2.2 km from “Our recommendation is that these structures shouldn’t be used . (3.2 miles), Today 2.2 km from at 15:12 December 15, 2020 UTC, Location: The engineers just write what they want to write, some of them are blank, some are more specific, others more general. 76.2 km from Catalyst, a new journal published by Jacobin, is out now. Any excuse to avoid a transparent process that reflects the real state of the schools and seeks to protect the school community will constitute an act of criminal negligence . (22.2 miles), 2020-12-14 16:24:12 UTC This must include: first aid training; emotional support services for staff; emergency and earthquake management workshops; discussions of the specific emergency protocols in each school with their unique circumstances; a reevaluation and reworking of school structures in order to create smaller class sizes that are more manageable in the case of an emergency; a familiarization with evacuation routes and meet-up points at each campus; as well as a discussion of the walk-through inspections that were done. News Puerto Rico rocked by 5.4 magnitude earthquake. We simply will not let the experience of Hurricane Maria, in which so many people suffered and died unnecessarily, happen again. Puerto Rico is currently on lockdown due to the Covid-19 crisis, which has made it harder for people affected by the earthquake to receive aid. (1.2 miles), Today at 11:34 December 15, 2020 UTC, Location: (1.2 miles), 2020-12-14 09:29:45 UTC 5.2 km from Tallaboa 2020-12-15 04:15:21 UTC An earthquake struck Puerto Rico before dawn Tuesday, killing one man, injuring at least eight others and collapsing buildings in the southern part of the island. Members of the FADEP aren’t waiting around for the DOE to do the right thing. at 01:38 December 15, 2020 UTC, Location: at 04:15 December 15, 2020 UTC, Location: 8.2 km from Epicenter at 17.924, -66.979 2.2 km from Entire neighborhoods of cement structures shifted and crumbled, leaving thousands of people homeless and many more living in precarious situations. at 19:31 December 15, 2020 UTC, Location: Epicenter at 19.138, -66.443 The U.S. Geological Service reported that a 5.8-magnitude earthquake hit Puerto Rico early Monday morning, according to The Associated Press. To date, they have received no response despite the in-depth proposals that they crafted with engineers and experts in the field. Guánica La Parguera (1.2 miles), 2020-12-14 03:19:10 UTC Indios at 15:42 December 15, 2020 UTC, Location: (3.2 miles), 2020-12-14 09:10:11 UTC . at 05:46 December 15, 2020 UTC, Location: Thousands remain in … Epicenter at 17.967, -66.994 “History repeats itself at certain points.” The earthquake was preceded by a series of smaller quakes in the south of … 5.2 km from Similar to the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, the […]. at 20:23 December 15, 2020 UTC, Location: Already on our list? 2020-12-15 09:28:18 UTC The 6.4 magnitude earthquake was the most severe in a series of tremors off the US territory over the past 10 days. Epicenter at 18.008, -66.788 5.2 km from Epicenter at 17.976, -66.731 (2.2 miles), Today But the DOE is unable to provide any kind of comprehensive description of the findings of these inspections or of earlier repairs which were carried out in the early 2000s. Epicenter at 17.975, -66.727 Stella Salvaleón de Higüey The inspections and repairs that the FADEP is calling for may take longer and cost more money. A 5.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of southern Puerto Rico Saturday, jolting some residents from their beds and briefly knocking out … GUANICA, PUERTO RICO - JANUARY 7: A man walks past a destroyed store after a 6.4 earthquake hit just south of the island on January 7, 2020 in Guánica, Puerto Rico. 2020-12-15 13:23:29 UTC The disasters have been worsened by the government’s lack of response to the earthquake’s devastation — especially on the island’s schools. “This is about prioritizing the lives of the people, of our children. 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