The third major quake in 24 hours! A magnitude 6.0 - 131 km ENE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea is the 3rd quake in the last 24 hours! The 3rd major quake in the first week of the new decade!

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The third major quake of in the last 24 hours! A magnitude 6.0 - 131km ENE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea is the 3rd quake in the last 24 hours!nThe 3rd major quake in the first week of the new decade!

Puerto Rico Governor Wanda Vazquez declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard on Tuesday after a series of earthquakes including one of magnitude 6.4 that was the most powerful to strike the Caribbean island in 102 years. Full story

A very powerful shallow (shallow quakes are the most powerful) mag 6.6 reduced to a mag 6.5 by USGS has rocked Puerto Rico after a swarm of smaller quakes struck earlier today and yesterday along with a powerful magnitude 5.8 and just hours after a powerful shallow magnitude 6.2 struck Indonesia’s province of Aceh on the island of Sumatra. Full story