Rare Earthquake Swarm Strikes Puerto Rico
In Puerto Rico, however, 鈥渨hat we鈥檙e looking at here are earthquakes of more or less common size: There鈥檚 still lots of small ones but quite a few fives and then up to the 6.4,鈥 said , a seismologist at Western Washington University in Bellingham. 鈥淭hat is a little more like what we would call an earthquake swarm, where there isn鈥檛 a clear dominant one early in the sequence and then a tapering.鈥