Opinion: Puerto Ricans need new words to show what's at stake

On Saturday morning the earth shook from under my elderly mother's feet in Ponce for the nearly one thousandth time -- the earth has not stopped shaking since the early morning of December 28. Since then, according to Puerto Rico's Seismic Network, there have been nearly 1,000 tremors and aftershocks, the largest one slamming the southern region on Tuesday and registering 6.4 on the Richter scale. Tuesday's quake -- which locals are calling El Grande -- came a day after a 5.8 magnitude quake struck Monday morning. That same morning, Paul Earle of the US Geological Survey (USGS) told David Begnaud in an interview on "CBS This Morning" that the estimated chance of another big earthquake happening at 3%. On Saturday, another earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 rocked Puerto Rico, according to the US Geological Survey.

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