Magnitude 5.7 earthquake shakes Puerto Rico on Monday morning -- the strongest in a flurry of quakes to strike the US territory in recent days.
Gov. Wanda Vázquez Garced urged people to stay composed as residents in the south posted pictures of damaged houses and rocks and boulders blocking roads.
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida wrote in a tweet that his office was in contact with authorities in Puerto Rico and will help to provide any federal aid that is needed. “This is hell,” said Alberto Rodríguez, 43, whose home collapsed on its side. “We haven’t slept ... you can’t remain calm here. Guánica is no longer a safe place.”
“I have never felt anything like this,” Benitez said. “It was like a giant grabbed our room and shook it."
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