Dominica and its neighboring islands Martinique and Guadeloupe have recorded two earthquakes inside a span of 24 hours, maintaining the development of reasonable tremors being an everyday incidence within the area.
The second of the 2 quakes occurred at 4:48 pm native time at an estimated depth of 114 kms and got here in at a magnitude of 4.1 on the Richter Scale, in line with the reviews issued by the UWI Seismic Analysis Middle (UWI SRC).
The UWI Seismic Analysis Middle (UWI SRC) makes use of an Computerized Earthquake Location system which revealed that the quake struck Dominica’s capital Roseau from 20 kms South East, Fort-de-France in Martinique from 65 kms North-North West and Level-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe from 124 kms South-South East.
The primary of the 2 earthquakes was recorded at round 11:42 am native time, registering on the Richter Scale with a magnitude of three.8 from a depth of 97 km.
As soon as once more, the UWI Seismic Analysis Middle (UWI SRC) Computerized Earthquake Location system revealed that the quake struck Roseau in Dominica from 40 kms North East, Fort-de-France in Martinique from 97 kms North and Level-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe from 100 kms South East.
The area is used to experiencing tremors at common intervals and reasonable earthquakes have develop into a typical incidence. But, the concern of a powerful earthquake has all the time plagued the area, which is why nations within the Caribbean have targeted extensively on constructing business and residential properties which can be local weather resilient and fewer inclined to break as a result of pure calamities comparable to excessive depth earthquakes.
One other instance of such an episode was when Dominica and Martinique had been struck by an earthquake on New Yr’s Eve. The earthquake registered on the Richter Scale with a magnitude of 4.9 at 7:31 am native time, from a depth of 10 kms.
Based on reviews issued by the UWI Seismic Analysis Middle (UWI SRC), the earth quake struck Roseau in Dominica from 95 kms East, Fort-de-France in Martinique from 98 kms North East and Castries in Saint Lucia from 149 kms North-North East.
Such episodes have bolstered the concept that the area should speed up its transition in direction of modernized infrastructure initiatives to switch properties which can be vulnerable to sustaining injury when confronted by earthquakes, tropical storms, hurricanes and different pure disasters which have all however develop into the norm within the Caribbean.
