current forecast
Posted by cypresstx on 1/8/2020, 11:55 pm
can be found at the links

https://www.usgs.gov/news/magnitude-64-earthquake-puerto-rico
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us70006vll/oaf/commentary

from the page:

The January 6 and 7, 2020, M 5.8 and M 6.4 earthquakes offshore of southwest Puerto Rico occurred as the result of oblique strike slip faulting at shallow depth. At the location of this event, the North America plate converges with the Caribbean plate at a rate of about 20 mm/yr towards the west-southwest. The location and style of faulting for the event is consistent with an intraplate tectonic setting within the upper crust of the Caribbean plate, rather than on the plate boundary between the two plates.

Tectonics in Puerto Rico are dominated by the convergence between the North America and Caribbean plates, with the island being squeezed between the two. To the north of Puerto Rico, North America subducts beneath the Caribbean plate along the Puerto Rico trench. To the south of the island, and south of todays earthquake, Caribbean plate upper crust subducts beneath Puerto Rico at the Muertos Trough. The January 6 earthquake, and other recent nearby events, are occurring in the offshore deformation zone bound by the Punta Montalva Fault on land and the Guayanilla Canyon offshore.

I was wondering if they started drilling there ? https://www.puertoricoreport.com/us-estimates-oil-gas-south-of-puerto-rico/
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