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Puerto Ricans Left Homeless After Biggest Quake in Century

Associated Press

   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 them the
   strongest in a century.

   The magnitude 6.4 quake that struck before dawn on Tuesday killed one
   person, injured nine others and knocked out power across the U.S.
   territory. More than 250,000 Puerto Ricans remained without water on
   Wednesday and another half a million without power, which also affected
   telecommunications.

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