Earthquake struck Puerto Rico

Jagerbomb52 · Jan 6, 2020

You OK Ansia?

HiloHawaiian · Jan 6, 2020

I just saw that....5.8 isn’t huge, but big enough to do a lot of damage to certain kinds of structures. My 1st thought was Ansia too, are you OK??

butch · Jan 6, 2020

Hope he is fine, looks bad....?

macoman · Jan 6, 2020

@Ansia hope you are ok brother!

Antonello · Jan 6, 2020

I hope everyone well I'm so sorry

Ansia · Jan 6, 2020

Thanks everyone. Me and my family are fine. I'm currently at my beach house and we were worried foe a tsumani, but thankfully this wasn't the case.

Many buildings south of Puerto Rico were affected, specially those built on columns, but up to now, there hasn't been any loss of life.

macoman · Jan 6, 2020

Ansia said:
Thanks everyone. Me and my family are fine. I'm currently at my beach house and we were worried foe a tsumani, but thankfully this wasn't the case.

Many buildings south of Puerto Rico were affected, specially those built on columns, but up to now, there hasn't been any loss of life.

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Holy cow... looking at these pictures, it appear to be a very bad earthquake... Sending all positive prayers to my people in PR!

Ansia · Jan 6, 2020

macoman said:
Holy cow... looking at these pictures, it appear to be a very bad earthquake... Sending all positive prayers to my people in PR!

Only 5 houses, 1 government building and an old Spanish lighthouse in all of PR suffered heavy damages.

.If you look closely to the photos, you can see they didn't use enough rebar or the correct size. This is why they failed. The house next to my beach house is also a column raised house and didn't suffer any damaged. The lighthouse is made out of brick and mortar, so it's to be expected. I don't know what happened to the gov' building. Most likely the soil liquified and it suffered due to a poor foundation.

macoman · Jan 6, 2020

Ansia said:
Only 5 houses, 1 government building and an old Spanish lighthouse in all of PR suffered heavy damages.

.If you look closely to the photos, you can see they didn't use enough rebar or the correct size. This is why they failed. The house next to my beach house is also a column raised house and didn't suffer any damaged. The lighthouse is made out of brick and mortar, so it's to be expected. I don't know what happened to the gov' building. Most likely the soil liquified and it suffered due to a poor foundation.

If it's only five homes then it was not too bad but those people are in need of assistance to re-build their homes. They don't look like they have money.

Ansia · Jan 6, 2020

macoman said:
If it's only five homes then it was not too bad but those people are in need of assistance to re-build their homes. They don't look like they have money.

They are getting assistance.

Jagerbomb52 · Jan 6, 2020

Ya the yellow hair guy who lives in a painted house of white decided to cancel one of his rounds of golf and transferred the funds their way So its covered.

Tufargon · Jan 6, 2020

Woah! Glad you're ok Ansia!!

butch · Jan 6, 2020

Glad you are ok. Looks like some guys wine survived too.

Ansia · Jan 7, 2020

We just had another earthquake 20 minutes ago. It was so hard it took the power grid from the entire island and I lost internet until now. There is a Tsunami warning and my family left the beach house in a hurry. I left earlier due to work so I was already in high ground. I believe it was a 6.6 in the Rikter scale. It is to soon to know the extend of damages.

Tufargon · Jan 7, 2020

Prayers for everyone there. I don't get much for tv here so keep me/us up to date please!!

Ansia · Jan 7, 2020

Tufargon said:
Prayers for everyone there. I don't get much for tv here so keep me/us up to date please!!

I will try. My phone hasn't stopped ringing and it's my only source to the internet. So as I get more info, I will update. So far my family is safe and in high ground.

Ansia · Jan 7, 2020

Update: Tsunami warning has been cancelled. Now I am dreading having to take a cold shower, since power hasn't returned yet.

Tufargon · Jan 7, 2020

At this point brother I'd be happy you still have running water.

Ansia · Jan 7, 2020

Tufargon said:
At this point brother I'd be happy you still have running water.

I don't know if we have running water. The building has a cistern, which is underground, and that water is cooooold.

Ansia · Jan 7, 2020

I know you guys don't understand spanish, but in this link, you can get updates and photos on what's going on in Puerto Rico. I have things to take care of, so I'm going to be off for a few hours.

Yarim Correa (@YarimCorrea) on Twitter