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Hurricane Maria knocked out power to the entire island of Puerto Rico, home to 3.5m people, emergency officials have said.
The US territory's governor, Ricardo Rossello, issued a curfew for 18:00 local time (22:00 GMT) on Wednesday evening through early Saturday morning.
Images shared on social media show roofs being stripped away as winds as strong as 140 mph (225 km/h) whipped trees and power lines in Puerto Rico's capital city, San Juan.
Maria made landfall in Yabucoa in the east of Puerto Rico early on Wednesday as a category four storm, according to the US National Hurricane Center (NHC).
Hours earlier, Maria barreled through the US Virgin Islands' St Croix as a category five storm, sustaining winds of up to 175mph (281km/h).
UCJ, UNILORIN.
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