The blue cobblestones of Old San Juan are packed long before lunch. At El Yunque National Forest, the sound of waterfalls carries through the trees. Along the west coast in Rincón, surfers paddle out beneath orange evening skies. Puerto Rico has become one of the Caribbean’s most in-demand destinations, and getting there is about to […]
Above: a map of the quake (USGS) By the Caribbean Journal staff A 4.3-magnitude earthquake off the coast of St Kitts and Nevis caused light shaking in the Eastern Caribbean, particularly St Maarten, early Wednesday morning. The quake, which occurred at around 12:26 AM local time, struck about 7 kilometres west of Charlestown, Nevis and […]
Above: a graphic of the quake (USGS) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Dominican Republic was shaken by an earthquake on Saturday morning for the second time in two days. The 4.4-magnitude quake occurred at around 12:48 AM at a depth of 23 kilometres. It struck around 87 kilometres north-northeast of Punta Cana and about […]
Above: a map of the quake (graphic: USGS) By the Caribbean Journal staff A 4.2-magnitude earthquake caused light shaking across the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, according to the United States Geological Survey. The quake, which occurred off the southeastern coast of the Dominican Republic in the Mona Passage, had its epicentre about 32 kilometres […]
Above: a map of the quake By the Caribbean Journal staff The northeastern Caribbean was shaken on Monday by its second earthquake since Saturday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The quake’s epicentre was 60 kilometres northeast of Stoney Ground, Anguilla, occurring at 7:33 PM local time. That is about 158 kilometres north of […]
Above: a map of the quake (Graphic: USGS) By the Caribbean Journal staff A 4.0-magnitude earthquake off the northern coast of Venezuela on Sunday morning caused light shaking in Trinidad, according to the United States Geological Survey. The quake occurred about 29 kilometres north-northeast of Gueiria in Venezuela, and about 70 kilometres west-north-west of Port […]
Above: a map of the quake (USGS) A 4.8-magnitude earthquake caused shaking across the northeastern Caribbean on Saturday evening, according to the United States Geological Survey. The quake was felt as far north as St Maarten, as far south as Guadeloupe and across St Eustatius and St Kitts and Nevis. Its epicentre was about 30 […]
Above: a map of the quake (Graphic: USGS) By the Caribbean Journal staff A 4.0-magnitude earthquake shook the southern coast of the Dominican Republic early Monday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey. The quake’s epicentre was approximately 17 kilometres south-southwest of La Romana, and about 100 kilometres east-southeast of Santo Domingo. It occurred […]
Above: a map of the quake By the Caribbean Journal staff A 4.8-magnitude earthquake occurred southeast of Grenada on Sunday afternoon, according to the United States Geological Survey. The quake occurred at about 1:28 PM local time. A preliminary reading from the Seismic Research Institute at the University of the West Indies put the magnitude […]
Above: residents at a camp for internally displaced persons in Haiti (UN Photo/Igor Rugwiza) By the Caribbean Journal staff The United Nations says it is “concerned” about recent incidents of forced evictions of residents of camps for internally displaced persons in Haiti. Ross Mountain, the acting UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Haiti, said that, while he […]
Above: Aruba By the Caribbean Journal staff A total of 32 countries in the wider Caribbean basin and beyond conducted a full-scale joint tsunami alert exercise Wednesday. According to the exercise, an 8.5-magnitude earthquake struck 90 kilometres off the coast of Aruba, generating a Tsunami. A fictitious alert message was then sent by both the […]
Above: a map of the quake (graphic: USGS) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Dominican Republic was shaken a 4.3-magnitude earthquake early Saturday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey. The quake’s epicentre was about 13 kilometres south of Rio San Juan, and about 113 kilometres north of Santo Domingo. It occurred at about […]
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