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Trinidad and Grenada rattled by tremor

Published:Tuesday | October 15, 2024 | 8:44 AM
Tuesday’s quake is the latest seismic activity to affect the Caribbean in recent days.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.8 rattled two Caribbean countries early Tuesday morning, but there were no reports of injuries or damage.

The Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of the St Augustine campus of the University of  the West Indies, said that the tremor was recorded at 4.57 a.m. (local time) and was located Latitude: 11.13N, Longitude: 61.94W at a depth of 10 kilometres (km).

The SRC said it was felt 70 km north west of  Port of Spain, 91 km north west of Arima, east of the capital, and 104 km, south south west of St George's, Grenada's capital.

Tuesday's quake is the latest seismic activity to affect the Caribbean in recent days.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.1 was felt in St John's Antigua, Brades in Montserrat and Basseterre in St Kitts-Nevis, two days ago, while another with a magnitude of 4.0 was felt in Fort-de-France, Martinique, Castries, St Lucia and Roseau, Dominica three days earlier.

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