PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Several Caribbean countries have been rattled by earthquakes over the last 48 hours, with the latest occurring on Friday when a quake with a magnitude of 4.7 was felt in St. Kitts-Nevis and Antigua. Barbuda, the Trinidad-based Seismic Research Center (SRC) of the St. Augustine campus of the University (UWI), has reported.
It said Friday’s quake, which occurred at 5:17 am (local time), was located at Latitude: 19.78N, Longitude: 62.42W, and at a depth of 10 kilometers (km).
The quake was felt 277 km north of Basseterre, the St. Kitts-Nevis capital, and 303 km northwest of the Antigua and Barbuda capital, St. John’s.
As had been the case when two earthquakes rattled the region on Thursday, there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
On Thursday, the SRC reported that a quake with a magnitude of 3.8 was felt 146 km northeast of St. John’s in Antigua and Barbuda, 186 km northeast of point-a-Pitre in the French island of Guadeloupe and 233 km east northeast of Basseterre in St. Kitts-Nevis.
The quake, which occurred at 3:33 am (local time), had a location of Latitude: 17.69N, Longitude: 60.67W, and a depth of 14 km.
The second quake on Thursday occurred two minutes later at 3.35 and was felt 122 km northeast of St. John’s in Antigua and Barbuda, 160 km northeast of the French island of Guadeloupe and 213 km east of Basseterre of St. Kitts-Nevis.
It was located at Latitude: 17.50N, Longitude: 60.82W, and at a depth of one km.
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