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Magnitude 5.2 earthquake rocks Puerto Rico

A car is crushed under a home that collapsed after the previous day's magnitude 6.4 earthquake in Yauco, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. More than 250,000 Puerto Ricans remained without water on Wednesday and another half a million without power, which also affected telecommunications. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti) (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

GUANICA, PUERTO RICO – Another earthquake has hit the island of Puerto Rico, registering a magnitude 5.2 on Wednesday.

Scientists at the United States Geologic Survey placed the center of the earthquake west-southwest of the town of Guanica.

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Puerto Rico has been hit with multiple earthquakes and aftershocks since a 5.9 magnitude earthquake rocked the area on December 28.


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