Earthquakes in Jamaica
About 200 earthquakes are located in and around Jamaica per year most of which are minor, having magnitudes less than 4.0. The most seismically active areas are the Blue Mountain block in eastern Jamaica and the Montpelier-Newmarket belt in western Jamaica. Other areas of notable seismicity include the near offshore south-west of Black River on the south coast, and offshore Buff Bay on the north–east coast.
Two killed in Haiti quake collapse
A house has collapsed in Haiti’s second-largest city of Cap-Haitien, killing two people and injuring three as fearful residents felt aftershocks from a quake that struck Cuba.
“The house collapsed around midnight and two people were found dead and their bodies were taken to the hospital,” Kelly Bastien, the president of the Haitian Senate, told AFP on Sunday…read more
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The massive 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile may have changed the entire Earth’s rotation and shortened the length of days on our planet, a NASA scientist said Monday.
The quake, the seventh strongest earthquake in recorded history, hit Chile Saturday and should have shortened the length of an Earth day by 1.26 microseconds, according to research scientist Richard Gross at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. One microsecond is one-millionth of a second long.
“This change should be permanent,” Gross told SPACE.com today…read more