All famous expeditions to Puerto Rico seem to begin in the southern coastal town of Guanica. Christopher Columbus is said to have landed here during his second voyage to the New World in 1493. The ...

Guánica, Puerto Rico — A 5.8-magnitude quake hit Puerto Rico before dawn Monday, unleashing small landslides, causing power outages and severely cracking some homes. It was one of the strongest quakes ...

There aren't any threats of a tsunami for the U.S. East Coast. Following a series of on-land aftershocks in Puerto Rico this week, a 6.0 magnitude aftershock struck on Saturday under the ocean and ...

Because the winter season is potentially limiting for migratory birds, understanding their nonbreeding distributional patterns is essential. At a given site, patterns of species occurrence and ...

GUANICA, Puerto Rico – Miles of rocky shoreline and mangrove thickets have been fouled by a fuel spill drifting along Puerto Rico's southwest coast, environmental officials said Friday. Specialists ...

GUANICA, Puerto Rico --Over 1,000 miles from the deadly terror attack in Orlando, Florida, on the island of Puerto Rico, Lucibel Padro cries out for her son. "God ...

GUÁNICA, Puerto Rico — Ana Sofia Rivera would have started first grade this week. But classes have been postponed by a string of earthquakes that have struck Puerto Rico over the past two weeks, ...

A magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck near the south coast of Puerto Rico on Tuesday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake, which was felt across the island, caused some cracks but no ...

GUANICA, Puerto Rico — Cars, cots and plastic chairs became temporary beds for hundreds of families who lost their homes in southwest Puerto Rico as a flurry of earthquakes struck the island, one of ...