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    Puerto Rico Declares State Of Emergency After Quake Rocks Residents Awake

    The 6.4 magnitude temblor left at least one person dead and knocked out power to the island early Tuesday. It's the latest earthquake to hit Puerto Rico's southern coast in recent weeks.
    by Bill Chappell Jan 07, 2020 2 minutes
    A man stands in front of a church that was damaged in an earthquake on Monday in Guayanilla, Puerto Rico.

    Updated at 10:43 a.m. ET

    People across southern Puerto Rico awoke to find broken brick walls and felled power lines Tuesday, after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck before dawn. The major temblor hit a coastal stretch near the communities of Ponce and Guanica

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