Early morning quake rattles Caribbean islands
Published:Tuesday | March 31, 2020 | 9:18 AM
BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.4 rattled several Caribbean islands during the early hours of Tuesday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
The Trinidad-based Seismic Research Centre at the St Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) said that the quake occurred at 2: 42 a.m. local time.
It was located at Latitude: 17.24N, Longitude: 62.04W and at a depth of 103 kilometres.
The centre said that the quake was felt 25 km north west of Saint John’s, Antigua and Barbuda, 77km east of Basseterre, St Kitts- Nevis and 123 km north west of Point-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe.
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