You turn to us for voices you won't hear anywhere else.

Sign up for Democracy Now!'s Daily Digest to get our latest headlines and stories delivered to your inbox every day.

Magnitude 5.0 Earthquake Rattles Puerto Rico

HeadlineFeb 05, 2020

A magnitude 5.0 earthquake rattled Puerto Rico Tuesday as residents are still recovering from a magnitude 6.4 earthquake last month that destroyed homes, left 300,000 people without water and knocked out the power for two-thirds of the island. Tuesday’s quake was the 11th earthquake to hit Puerto Rico in the last month.

The original content of this program is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Please attribute legal copies of this work to democracynow.org. Some of the work(s) that this program incorporates, however, may be separately licensed. For further information or additional permissions, contact us.

Non-commercial news needs your support

We rely on contributions from our viewers and listeners to do our work.
Please do your part today.
Make a donation
Top