An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.9 rattled parts of Dominica and the French islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe on Monday, the Trinidad-based Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of the University of the West Indies (UWI) has reported.
It said that the quake, which occurred at 11:10 a.m. (local time), was located Latitude 15.79N, Longitude 61.41W and at a depth of 10 kilometres (km).
It was felt 53 km south-southeast of Point-à-Pitre, in Guadeloupe, 54 miles north of Roseau, the Dominica capital and 137 km north-northwest of Fort-de-France in Martinique.
The SRC said there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage and the earthquake is the latest in a series of earth tremors that have affected several Caribbean islands.
Last Thursday, less than 24 hours after several Caribbean countries were jolted by an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.2, the SRC reported that a stronger quake had been felt in some other territories.
The SRC said that the earthquake with a magnitude of 4.7 jolted the islands of Antigua and Barbuda and Dominica as well as the French island of Guadeloupe. It followed a quake with a magnitude of 4.2 rocked islands in the Eastern Caribbean.
