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The magnitude 7.2 earthquake quake struck 8 km (5 miles) from the town of Petit Trou de Nippes, about 150 km west of the capital Port-au-Prince, at a depth of 10 km, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
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).
The earthquake occurred in one of "the world’s most seismically active" areas, according to USGS. At least 24 earthquakes of magnitude 7 or larger have occurred within 155 miles of the most ...
United States Geological Survey's historical earthquake database shows 25 earthquakes with ≥ M w 6.0 since the 1900s, including two other earthquakes with ≥ M w 7.0, such as the Haiti earthquake in 2010 and the Honduras earthquake in 2018. The M w 7.7 Caribbean earthquake was the most powerful event in this region, with the mainshock ...
UWI-SRC was established in 1953, as the Volcanological Research Department of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture in Trinidad.In the early 1960s the department became the Seismic Research Unit of the University of the West Indies, and in 2008 was formally established as a research centre within the university, and took on the name Seismic Research Centre.
1692 Jamaica earthquake; 1766 Southeastern Caribbean earthquake; 1839 Martinique earthquake; 1867 Virgin Islands earthquake and tsunami; 1907 Kingston earthquake; 1946 Dominican Republic earthquake; 1974 Lesser Antilles earthquake; 1984 San Pedro Basin earthquake; 2003 Dominican Republic earthquake; 2004 Les Saintes earthquake; 2020 Caribbean ...
Rescuers seek to map out search priorities, after second earthquake rocks Kahramanmaras region in wake of country highest-magnitude tremor since 1939