PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, May 21, CMC -Two earthquakes have rattled several Caribbean countries over the past 24 hours, according to the St. Augustine-based Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of the University of the West Indies.
It said that the latest occurred at 7.28 am (local time) on Wednesday, when a tremor with a magnitude of 3.9 was felt in Barbados, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad ad Tobago.
According to the SRI, the earthquake was located at Latitude: 12.47N, Longitude: 60.29W at a depth of 10 kilometers (km).
It was felt 103 km south west of Bridgetown, Barbados, 129 km, south east of Kingstown, the capital of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and 151 km north, north east of Scarborough, the cable of Tobago.
The SRI said that Dominica and the French islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique were rattled y the earthquake with a magnitude of 3.5 at 11.53 pm on Tuesday night.
It said that the quake located at Latitude: 15.64N, Longitude: 61.07W at a depth of 14 km, was felt 51km north east of Roseau in Dominica, and 85km south east of Point-à-Pitre, the capital of Guadeloupe, and 115km north of Fort-de-France in Martinique.
The SRI reported that there were no reports of injuries or damage as a result of the two earthquakes.
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