the SAN JUAN – for almost a month, puerto Rico is shaken by earthquakes. The first on the 28th of December, it was very violent. Then three weeks of tremors newspapers and aftershocks that occurred in Ponce and in the cities on the southern coast of the island, more than 500 aftershocks of magnitude ranging between 2.5 and 5.9 until January 7, a was stronger, 6,4. At least one person, a man of 73 years, died and seven schools damaged, said the governor Wanda Vázquez , which has declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard. More than 750 people have fled their homes, and 300 thousand inhabitants are without water.
puerto Rico continues to lose pieces, to crumble. The last one to collapse was a condominium building Ponciana, one of the most characteristic of the second largest city of the island, Ponce. A structure of 12 floors, just to the south of the city centre, with medical units and commercial on the first three floors and apartments on the other nine. Now it is empty.
