By The Star Staff
Sen. Ramón Ruiz Nieves on Tuesday asked for attention from the U.S. Geological Service following the demands of residents of the San Germán del Barrio Indios sector of Guayanilla, who have recorded unusual subterranean sounds.
“We start from the reality that the earthquakes of 2020 had their epicenter precisely in this neighborhood. We start from the reality that the earthquakes of 2020 had their epicenter precisely in this neighborhood,” the recently reelected Ponce District senator said. “Now the residents have made a call and it is this federal agency that has the experience and resources to examine the situation.”
Ruiz Nieves, who chairs the Senate Government Committee, told a Ponce-based online news outlet that the vibrations shook doors and windows and interrupted the sleep of people in the community.
“One of the residents even reported the appearance of puddles on land that does not hold water for more than two days, and the sudden flooding of two septic tanks, one of which was built just a month ago,” the senator said. “Likewise, the appearance of surface springs was recorded.”
Ruiz Nieves meanwhile thanked the director of the Puerto Rico Seismic Network, Víctor Huérfano Moreno, for his intervention. The geophysicist agreed to evaluate some of the recordings made in the community and, in a preliminary manner, categorized the noises captured as “strange.”
“Dr. Huérfano points out that the noises are very periodic, very, very even, while natural noises, noises from the [earth’s] crust, are more like fractures, not as even and not as harmonic as those heard in Guayanilla,” the senator said.
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