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While the Earth­quakes in Puerto Rico are 1230 miles from Tampa, Florida, res­i­dents in the Sun­shine State are talk­ing. Two mod­er­ate tremors struck areas all around San Juan and coastal waters. There are no reports of tsunamis, severe dam­age, or casu­al­ties.   “Every­thing is OK. Some peo­ple went out of their rooms, but every­thing is back to nor­mal.” ~Mar­riott hotel employee on the two quakes.   Accord­ing to a news report from the Eco­nomic Times, the first quake of 5.3 mag­ni­tude was recorded at about 2 a.m. AST in the Mona Pas­sage. A short time later, a weaker tremor struck the coastal waters and areas around San Juan, accord­ing to the U.S. Geo­log­i­cal Survey.

Ear­lier reports hinted at a tsunami from the earth­quakes in Puerto Rico. How­ever, there was never an alert issued. Fur­ther­more, there are no reports of siz­able dam­age, injuries, or deaths at this time.

Puerto Rico Res­i­dents about Earth­quakes Impact

Aguadilla: I was read­ing on the couch, and the couch and my entire house had light to maybe mod­er­ate shaking

Mayaguez: about the earth­quakes: I was frighten for the first time in my life by an earth­quake. The first episode woke me up, the sec­ond I could like feel the waves, and hear my neigh­bors scream and shout out their fears. But luck­ily it was noth­ing to com­pare with Haiti’s and other earthquakes.

Car­olina on the earth­quake news: Two were felt, the stronger of the two at 2 and the sec­ond about 2:05 am

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico  – Two strong earth­quakes have struck Puerto Rico within min­utes of each oth­erThe quakes, with mag­ni­tudes of 5.1 and 5.3 respec­tively, occurred three min­utes apart just after 2 a.m. local time Sat­ur­day in the Mona Pas­sage, just to the west of the island. A smaller after­shock was reported a few min­utes later.

There were no imme­di­ate reports of dam­age.

Miguel Cotto has avenged his loss to Anto­nio Mar­gar­ito with a dom­i­nat­ing per­for­mance, win­ning by tech­ni­cal knock­out in the ninth round of their World Box­ing Assn. junior-middleweight fight at Madi­son Square Garden .

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Decem­ber 03, 2011

The bad blood between junior mid­dleweight titlist Miguel Cotto and Anto­nio Mar­gar­ito head­ing into their grudge rematch is so fierce, so real and so pal­pa­ble that Top Rank pro­moter Bob Arum did some­thing almost unheard of at Wednesday’s final news con­fer­ence. He refused the time-honored tra­di­tion of hav­ing the fight­ers pose face to face for the legion of pho­tog­ra­phers seek­ing the money image that would be splashed across their pub­li­ca­tions to pub­li­cize the fight. Junior mid­dleweights: Miguel Cotto (36−2, 29 KOs) vs. Anto­nio Mar­gar­ito (38−7, 27 KOs), 12 rounds,  With the intense bad feel­ings the fight­ers hold toward each other, Arum and his staff fig­ured, why risk a phys­i­cal con­fronta­tion? So Arum stood between them instead.