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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]
Jamaica, Cuba, Cayman Islands: 7.7 M w: VI: 0.3–1 meter tsunami: ... Earthquake and Tsunami Monitoring in the Northeast Caribbean, IRIS Earthquake Science – via ...
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]
Destructive earthquakes originating from the Oriente fault occurred in 1766 (M I = 7.6), 1852 (M I = 7.2) and 1932 (M s = 6.75). [3] Some studies suggested there is a high probability the Oriente fault would produce a magnitude 7 earthquake, [ 4 ] this happening in January 2020, with a magnitude of 7.7, the highest registered in this country's ...
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 ...
A tsunami warning was issued Thursday morning following a 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck in Humboldt County, 7 miles west-southwest of Ferndale, Calif., the National Weather Service said in ...
MARTIN COUNTY, Texas (KMID/KPEJ) – The United States Geological Survey recorded a 3.1 magnitude earthquake about 10 miles northwest of Stanton and about 19 miles northeast of Midland at around 8 ...
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