University of Puerto Rico researcher Zamara Fuentes, who isn't involved in ten Brinks' research, said one quake in this region in 1918 created a tsunami that killed 116 people on Puerto Rico. Fuentes studies sediment cores around the Caribbean to look for evidence of past tsunamis.
The 45th and current President of the United States is Donald J. Trump. He was sworn in on January 20, 2017. According to Article II of the U.S. Constitution, the President must be a natural-born citizen of the United States, be at least 35 years old, and have been a resident of the United States for 14 years.
Confidence votes 175. The United States of America was never truly founded as much as it was declared independent from the Kingdom of Great Britain on July 4, 1776. This date marks the signing of the Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson. Barack Obama became president of the United States of America in  2009 and is the current president. Before he became president there  was George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.