The nearest country is St Kitts and Nevis
Source: Loop News
Three earthquakes have now been recorded in the Northern Caribbean in just about 28 hours.
Today, at 5:17 am, a third and larger earthquake was recorded off St Kitts and Nevis. Yesterday’s quakes off Antigua were 3.8 and 3.5 in magnitude, but today’s earthquake registered as 4.7 on the Richter scale.
DATE AND TIME:
2023-02-17 05:17 am (Local Time)
MAGNITUDE: 4.7
LOCATION:
Latitude: 19.78N
Longitude: 62.42W
Depth: 10 km
NEARBY CITIES:
Basseterre, St Kitts and Nevis, 277 km, N
St John’s, Antigua and Barbuda, 303 km, NNW
Fajardo, Puerto Rico, 393 km, NE
*distance and direction to the epicenter
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DISCLAIMER: The event is located by a seismological computational system, therefore, it is a PRELIMINARY result and this may vary when new additional data are processed