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Chicago Group Coordinating Help For Puerto Rico After Quake

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CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- The Chicago-based "Puerto Rican Agenda" organization, which raised almost $500,00 for relief efforts after Hurricane Maria in 2017, is making an appeal on behalf of earthquake victims.

Cristina Pacione-Zayas, co-chair of the Puerto Rican Agenda, said she has talked with people in Puerto Rico since the 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit.


"People are just frightened," said Pacione-Zayas.

"The handful of people I spoke to — there is the terror. There is the trauma," she said. "There is the thinking of, 'I'm not going to sleep inside my home. I'm going to camp outside.'"

Pacione-Zayas added: "There was one person I spoke to that had some friends that they've lost home already in Guanica."

That is one of the areas hardest hit and the country suffered another earthquake Jan. 11 that left 5,000 people without power.