A number of Caribbean international locations have been rattled by earthquakes over the past 48 hours with the most recent occurring on Friday when a quake with a magnitude of 4.7 was felt in St. Kitts-Nevis and Antigua and Barbuda, the Trinidad-based Seismic Analysis Heart (SRC) of the St. Augustine campus of the College (UWI) reported.
It mentioned Friday’s quake, which occurred at 5:17 a.m. was situated Latitude: 19.78N, Longitude: 62.42W and at a depth of six miles.
The quake was felt in 172 miles north of Basseterre, the St. Kitts-Nevis capital and 188 miles, north, north west of the Antigua and Barbuda capital, St. John’s.
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As had been the case when the area was rattled by two earthquakes on Thursday, there have been no speedy experiences of injury or accidents.
On Thursday, the SRC reported {that a} quake with a magnitude of three.8 was felt 91 miles north east of St. John’s in Antigua and Barbuda, 116 miles north east of point-a-Pitre within the French island of Guadeloupe and 145 miles east north east of Basseterre in St. Kitts-Nevis.
The quake which occurred at 3:33 a.m. (native time) had a location of Latitude: 17.69N, Longitude: 60.67W and at a depth of 9 miles.
The second quake on Thursday occurred two minutes later at 3.35 was felt 76 miles north east of St. John’s in Antigua and Barbuda and 99 miles north east of the French island of Guadeloupe and 132 miles east of Basseterre of St. Kitts-Nevis.
It was situated at Latitude: 17.50N, Longitude: 60.82W and at a depth of simply over half a mile.
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