. >> reporter: we found samantha cortez and her family at the shelter set up outside the guanica coliseum. they're among the higher ground, fearing a tsunami. first responders were handing out water. they provided medical care and dispersed calm for the hundreds of people who slept here overnight. these are people who either don't have a home to go home to, or they feel safer outside than they do in their own home because they've been dealing with earthquakes, as one woman told me, almost ever hour it felt like for the last seven day. >> i've never seen anything like this. never. >> reporter: felix rodriguez was watching over a neighbor when we met him. not far away, rosalee torres kept her two and 5-year-old children close. >> we woke up. we were being thrown around. everything was shaking back and forth. keep falling back down. >> boom. and then it started shaking. everybody started screaming, running. thor. >> reporter: torres' mother-in-law told us that the family just finished repairing the damage to their home that was caused by hurricane maria two and a half years ago, and now they

samantha cortez told us what it was like to live through. >> basically it was like a horrible noise. basically, you're like-- i don't know, like something exploded. and then after that, everything sharted shaking, and between the , aking and the breaking of everything, i didn't know what >>s worse. >> reporter: the governor is urging people to remain calm but prepare for more earthquakes. "do not risk yourselves. we can in some way replace property. what we cannot replace is your lives, those of your children and your families. that is the priority." as this couple was examining their apartment, there was more r.aking, so they ran outside the building where it was safer. residents in this nursing home were taken outside to the sidewalk over fears that the building could collapse. a representative of the mayor here in guanica told me a short home ago "our people need e ychological help. they've been living with earthquakes for the last week and they've been happening almost every hour." norah, today the governor of puerto rico confirmed the island ares not have an earthquake- prepared

. >> reporter: we found samantha cortez and her family at on tue when the earthquake hits fearing a tsunamit responders were handing out water, they provided medicare care and disperse cots to hundreds of people who slept here over night. these are people who do not have a home to go to or they feel safer outside than they do in their own home. phi have been dealing with earthquake every hour. >> reporter: felix rodriguez was watching over a neighbor, rosalie torres kept her two and five years old children close. >> we woke up and we have been thrown around and everything was shaken. people going back down. boom! and then it started shaking. everybody started screaming, running. >> reporter: torres' mother-in-law told us the family just finished repairing the damage to their home that was caused by hurricane maria, now, they'll be forced to repair the home again. >> we have no place to stay. >> reporter: your house collapsed? >> yes. >> i lost everything. >> reporter: look there is a lot of rumor that's causing confusion here mainly the fractions that's causing the earthquake. that's not th