{"id":4954,"date":"2020-01-07T13:10:26","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T17:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drealfmgrenada.com\/?p=4954"},"modified":"2020-01-07T13:10:26","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T17:10:26","slug":"caribbean-countries-warned-to-be-prepared-as-major-earthquakes-hit-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drealfmgrenada.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/07\/caribbean-countries-warned-to-be-prepared-as-major-earthquakes-hit-puerto-rico\/","title":{"rendered":"Caribbean Countries Warned To Be Prepared As Major Earthquakes Hit Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"

CMC-<\/strong> The Trinidad-based Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of the University of the West Indies (UWI) Tuesday said that the recent earthquakes in Puerto Rico should serve as a reminder to the Caribbean \u201cthat our region is seismically active and we always need to be prepared\u201d.<\/p>\n

On Monday, an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 rocked Puerto Rico and it was followed by a stronger quake with a magnitude of 5.4 on Tuesday. The SRC said that Monday\u2019s quake was a \u201cforeshock\u201d to the 6.4 quake on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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US officials said power outages and damage have been reported near the island\u2019s southern coast, including in the city of Ponce, where a\u00a0 77-year-old man was killed and at least eight others were injured.<\/p>\n

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A building collapsed and crushed a car in Yauco, Puerto Rico. All the occupants of the home are reported to be uninjured. PHOTO- CNN<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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The US Geological Survey said the quake also affected several other countries including the Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Saint Martin, Sint Maarten, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts and Nevis, Turks and Caicos Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe recent earthquakes around Puerto Rico serves as a reminder that our region is seismically active and we always need to be prepared,\u201d the SRC said, adding that \u201calthough we do not monitor that area, sharing of knowledge is key to better understanding and living with these geological hazards\u201d.<\/p>\n

According to information posted on the SRC website, the biggest earthquake in an earthquake sequence is called the mainshock.<\/p>\n

\u201cMainshocks are followed by lots of smaller earthquakes called aftershocks. Occasionally an earthquake will be followed by a larger event. In that case, we call the first earthquake a \u201cforeshock\u201d and the new, larger event a \u201cmainshock\u201d. There\u2019s nothing inherently different about the earthquakes themselves, it\u2019s just terminology explaining when they occur in relation to each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

In recent days, several Caribbean countries have been rocked by earthquakes ranging in magnitudes from 3.9 to 4.3.<\/p>\n

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