Driving around Puerto Rico that last couple of weeks looking for building supplies for the house I noticed a few things that made me say “hmmmm.”
1. Tsunami evacuation route signs in all of the low areas around Mayaguez
2. Houses on thin little stilts that don’t seem very earthquake proof
With that said, i was just doing some research online about tsunami’s in Puerto Rico (we are high enough that we wouldn’t get hit even if an Indonesia like tsunami came through) and found out that the last big one hit in 1918. It was a medium sized wave that did about $4 million dollars in damage top the West Side of Puerto Rico and was caused by an earthquake in the Mona Trench (deepest spot in the entire Atlantic Ocean and one of the largest fault lines on the East coast) with a magnitude of 7.5
That answers my questions…yep, they have been hit by tsunamis and they do get earthquakes.