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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]
Cayman Islands, Grand Cayman offshore, 55 km southeast of East End: 6.1 10.0 V It was an aftershock of the 7.7 earthquake a few hours earlier. - - 29 [40] Solomon Islands, Makira-Ulawa offshore, 70 km west of Kirakira: 6.0 85.0 V It was an aftershock of the 6.3 quake two days prior. - -
Major earthquakes in the Caribbean are infrequent and are sometimes accompanied by ... Jamaica, Cuba, Cayman Islands: 7.7 M w: VI: 0.3–1 meter tsunami: 2020-01-07 ...
Grand Cayman is the largest of the three Cayman Islands and the location of the territory's capital, George Town. In relation to the other two Cayman Islands, it is approximately 75 miles (121 km) southwest of Little Cayman and 90 miles (145 km) southwest of Cayman Brac. Location of Grand Cayman (circled), south of Cuba and the Florida peninsula
The Cayman Trough (also known as the Cayman Trench, Bartlett Deep and Bartlett Trough) is a complex transform fault zone pull-apart basin which contains a small spreading ridge, the Mid-Cayman Rise, on the floor of the western Caribbean Sea between Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. [1]
It is the largest Puerto Rican earthquake to have occurred on land in recent times. [7] 2010-12-24: Aguas Buenas Puerto Rico: 5.1 V – – Felt throughout Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. It is colloquially known as the 2010 Aguas Buenas earthquake or the "2010 Nochebuena earthquake" (2010 Christmas Eve earthquake).
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The Gonâve microplate, showing location of the main fault zones. The Septentrional–Orient fault zone (SOFZ) is a system of active coaxial left lateral-moving strike slip faults that runs along the northern side of the island of Hispaniola where Haiti and the Dominican Republic are located and continues along the south of Cuba along the northern margin of the Cayman Trough.