{"id":18133,"date":"2020-01-10T14:58:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T22:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=18133"},"modified":"2020-01-11T11:43:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T19:43:49","slug":"over-1000-earthquakes-have-hit-puerto-rico-and-authorities-say-it-is-being-squeezed-between-two-tectonic-plates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/over-1000-earthquakes-have-hit-puerto-rico-and-authorities-say-it-is-being-squeezed-between-two-tectonic-plates\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 1000 Earthquakes Have Hit Puerto Rico, And Authorities Say It Is Being \u201cSqueezed\u201d Between Two Tectonic Plates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"17950\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/black_horse_blog-300x100-300x100-6\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/black_horse_blog-300x100-300x100.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"300,100\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"black_horse_blog-300&amp;#215;100-300&amp;#215;100\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/black_horse_blog-300x100-300x100.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17950\" src=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/black_horse_blog-300x100-300x100-300x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18134\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/over-1000-earthquakes-have-hit-puerto-rico-and-authorities-say-it-is-being-squeezed-between-two-tectonic-plates\/puerto-rico\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Puerto-Rico.png\" data-orig-size=\"600,449\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Puerto Rico\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Puerto-Rico.png\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18134\" src=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Puerto-Rico-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Puerto-Rico-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Puerto-Rico.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"url fn n\" title=\"View all posts by Michael Snyder\" href=\"http:\/\/endoftheamericandream.com\/archives\/author\/Admin\" rel=\"author\">Michael Snyder<\/a> &#8211; January 8, 2020<\/p>\n<p>The nightmarish earthquake swarm that has been rattling Puerto Rico since last month continues to make headlines all over the world.\u00a0 Homes, businesses, schools, hospitals and historic structures all over the main island of Puerto Rico have crumbled, and many residents are deeply afraid of using many of the buildings that remain standing because they are afraid that they could literally collapse at any moment.\u00a0 We haven\u2019t seen this sort of shaking in the region in more than a century, and as you will see below, experts are telling us that more quakes are coming.<\/p>\n<p>Traditionally, Puerto Rico has not been known for heavy seismic activity.\u00a0 But now that could be changing.\u00a0 According <a title=\"to CNN\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/01\/08\/us\/puerto-rico-region-hundreds-of-earthquakes\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to CNN<\/a>, there have been more than 500 quakes \u201cof magnitude 2 or greater\u201d since December 28th\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em>Since December 28, more than 500 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or greater have rattled the area, according to the US Geological Survey. Many of them were relatively shallow, which means they were likely felt on land.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Of the hundreds of earthquakes, 32 were magnitude 4 and above, including the ones Monday and Tuesday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And overall, there have been <a title=\"\u201cmore than a thousand quakes\u201d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/earthquakes-destroy-punta-ventana-puerto-rican-natural-wonder-our-icon-is-gone\/ar-BBYG6Nh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cmore than a thousand quakes\u201d<\/a> of all sizes since this earthquake swarm first started in December\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em>Since the tremors began last month, Puerto Rico has experienced <strong>more than a thousand quakes<\/strong>, most of them too small to feel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The mainstream media really began to take notice when the main island of Puerto Rico was hit by a magnitude 4.7 earthquake on December 28th, and that was quickly followed by a magnitude 5.0 quake.<\/p>\n<p>Then just a few days ago we witnessed a magnitude 5.8 quake, a magnitude 6.4 quake and a magnitude 6.0 quake <a title=\"in rapid succession\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2020\/01\/07\/puerto-rico-earthquake\/2830673001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in rapid succession<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/endoftheamericandream.com\/archives\/over-1000-earthquakes-have-hit-puerto-rico-and-authorities-say-it-is-being-squeezed-between-two-tectonic-plates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/endoftheamericandream.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Snyder &#8211; January 8, 2020 The nightmarish earthquake swarm that has been rattling Puerto Rico since last month continues to make headlines all over the world.\u00a0 Homes, businesses, schools, hospitals and historic structures all over the main island of Puerto Rico have crumbled, and many residents are deeply afraid of using many of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/over-1000-earthquakes-have-hit-puerto-rico-and-authorities-say-it-is-being-squeezed-between-two-tectonic-plates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Over 1000 Earthquakes Have Hit Puerto Rico, And Authorities Say It Is Being \u201cSqueezed\u201d Between Two Tectonic Plates<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[36,38,1231,1048],"class_list":["post-18133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-horse","tag-disaster","tag-earthquake","tag-puerto-rico","tag-seismic-activity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-4It","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18135,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18133\/revisions\/18135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}