Roughly two-thirds of Puerto Rico remains without electricity, many still don't have water and frightened residents were staying outside Wednesday as a series of aftershocks rocked the island following a magnitude 6.4 earthquake
The quake was the strongest and likely the most damaging of hundreds of temblors that have struck the island since December 28. It hit before dawn Tuesday, leaving a man dead and causing dozens of homes and structures to crumble. Ways you can help those impacted by Puerto Rico's earthquakesIt was centered off Puerto Rico's southern coast, 6 miles south of Indios. Gov.
About 500,000 customers, roughly one-third of the island, are back on the grid, the Electric Energy Authority said in a tweet. A system-wide power outage was reported after the Costa Sur power plant near Guayanilla suffered severe damage Tuesday, Vázquez Garced said."We lost the largest plant in the entire system," said Jose Ortiz, executive director of the Electric Power Authority.
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