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Radio host Cliff Hughes was in the middle of a live on-air interview when a earthquake began shaking his studio, prompting him to dive under his desk. The 5.4 magnitude earthquake hit Jamaica on ...
The Gonâve microplate, showing the main fault zones that bound it. The island of Jamaica lies on the boundary between the Caribbean plate and the Gonâve microplate.The Gonâve microplate is a 1,100 km (680 mi) long strip of mainly oceanic crust formed by the Cayman spreading ridge within a strike-slip pull-apart basin on the northern transform margin of the Caribbean plate with the North ...
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At 02:10 PM local time on 28 January 2020, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7 M w struck the north side of the Cayman Trough, north of Jamaica and west of the southern tip of Cuba, with the epicenter being 80 miles (130 km) east-southeast of Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands, [4] and 83 miles (134 km) north of Montego Bay, Jamaica. [5]
A magnitude 7.6-7.7 earthquake struck near the coast of western Mexico on 19 September 2022. A tsunami about 1.75 m (5.7 ft) high was reported near the epicentre. [212] The tsunami was detected as far away as Ecuador, where tsunami waves as high as 12 cm (4.7 in) were observed. [213] 2023 Greenland 2023 Greenland landslide: Landslide
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After the earthquake, tsunami were observed along much of the north coast of Jamaica at Hope Bay, Port Antonio, Orange Bay, Sheerness Bay, Saint Ann's Bay, Buff Bay, Port Maria and Annotto Bay; there were also some reports of waves along the south coast. Seiches were reported in Kingston Harbour. The level of the sea at Annotto Bay was reported ...
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Northern California at 10:44 a.m. PST, with shaking felt across the region. The epicenter was 39 miles west of Petrolia, California, and was very ...