Antigua and several islands in the northeastern Caribbean was rocked by at least a 3.8-magnitude earthquake in the wee hours of Sunday morning.
The US Geological Survey reported that the tremor 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 kilometres southwest of Codrington, Barbuda, at a depth of 20 kilometres. The quake occurred around 1:11 am.
The highest level of shaking was felt in St Eustatius, Antigua and St Kitts.
There have been no reports of damage or injuries in any of the islands.
Oh my! Here we go again with god and gods.People please rid yourself of this religious slavery that was imposed upon your forefathers.
Our islands sit on the edge of a tectonic plate called the Caribbean Plate. Beneath all the islands from Anguilla to Grenada is what is called a Subduction Zone where two plates meet. One plate, the American Plate, goes underneath the Caribbean Plate. When pressure builds up at particular points we get tremors and sometimes serious earthquakes. It has been happening for millions of years, long before the Jews invented the desert god of the middle east.
The Siesmic Research Centre at UWI St. Augustine has reported that these scattered tremors in this corner of the Caribbean over the past months may be a build up to a larger quake but this is difficult to forecast.
So educate yourselves about the facts, and do not go saying that some destructive zombie or fairy in the sky is zapping people to send messages etc. Grow up!
I pray God’s Mercy on you
Atheist or agnostic, you think you know everything. Little do you know. Some people know more than you because you have closed your mind to believing in God.
People as you are falsely indoctrinated. Where did you fail? All these are wake-up calls, not only for Dominica but for others elsewhere in the world. The big one will come someday. The world is expecting it even though they are not prepared. We can never be fully prepared for disasters. They could come like a thief in the night when we least expect them. At such a time only God could help if we call on him. He may shield us. If we are injured or killed He knows best but He will ensure that we turn to him at such a time and He will save our souls for Heaven.
If you are not a religious person, you better get with it and become one. You did not create yourself nor bring yourself into the world. At the appointed time when you die you will be faced with your Creator, Maker and Ruler of the world, God, for your last judgment.
You have a soul and it will return to God for judging. Dust to dust, ashes to ashes was not spoken of the soul. Believers are not foolish people. Learn from them.
Good Lord, you again. l guess unbelievers made this earthquake happened eh? Madam Justice, do you sit at your computer every hour of the day waiting to write your (poison) religious mess and throw it at every so-called non-believer? Do you have anything else to do with your life? The Lord must be either weeping, or laughing at you. Trust me, you are a laughing stock, you sound so stupid that you are wasting time everyone’s time. l think it is time for me to assess you because the bipolar behavior is obvious and your writings are showing the need for sympathy, loneliness, and fear, to name a few. l bet you are thinking about changing your name to Mother Justice. That sounds better. Madam Justice, like Telemaque said, you are a fool, and you are writing rubbish. l cannot agree more.
A fool is smart only in his/her own sight!
If only you had spoken precisely about the moving plates, you would have made so much sense, however even from your on set the garbage spewed from your heart via you fingers are not worth reading; the worst of all is the nonsense you wrote about the Jews and some desert god!
You are a fool, and I am here to tell you the God, of the Jesus, and of modern day Israel is not a desert God, he is the Almighty, the infinite God Jehovah, who has the power to eliminate you from the face of this earth before you can blink your eye lids!
You better seek him through his Son Jesus, perhaps by then you may find him and develop some commonsense which you lack thus far.
You had better be careful, and avoid writing such rubbish!
Plenty of us are involve into science, and the way in you describe the plates, we could simply say the entire Caribbean sits on a ring of fire, it is an established scientific fact, if you wish to submit something educational some of us might be happy to read you, but that crap you post here is so unnecessary, and un-call-for, it is an insult to intelligent people.
That makes you a fool!
“Oh my! Here we go again with god and gods.People please rid yourself of this religious slavery that was imposed upon your forefathers.”
Those are the wwords of a confounded fool!
Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
LOL who created the island? Who created the plates?
@Kaliban….. “A” for effort but these people like aka Justice and False and Francisco Telewack… live in the matrix of the bible…thought beyond it’s covers are strictly too impossible for them to fathom. They are religious but not spiritual…and that is where I lose faith in humanity. But they are two idiots out of 7 billion….life goes on!
3.8 magnitude earthquake does not appear to be dangerous. However, who knows? It could have caused some damage. I am pleased to know there was no damage whatsoever.
Wow, you are beginning to make a little sense. But they will be earthquakes because of the structure of the earth. Would you believe the same activities are happening on mars? They are called marsquakes. On earth, earthquakes are happening somewhere every single day. Some are felt, some are not. We here in Dca are lucky that the creeks and cracks are eliminating heat. Our hot springs are examples of this. Otherwise we would feel vigorous quakes. Volcanic islands are prone to these quakes hence a big one is imminent. I am surprised you are not blaming the non-Catholic for them. Shows you could be healed of ignorance.
Well I think someone needs to tell us what is really happening because an earthquake is a sign of something going on somewhere. We have a number of active volcanoes in the Caribbean and we sit on a plate that is always moving. I know that they are constantly monitoring seismic activity in Dominica and these earthquakes in recent times are bound to affect us.
Just let us know
You just explained it to yourself. The authorities know as much as you do.
I felt it …I was actually on the toilet
Bet you were scared to be in such a position.
God is sending us a warning in Antigua we keep having those earthquakes every month. it always happens between midnight and three in the morning.
This is usually true. This is how loving God is. If it ever happens during the day when people are up and around and a worst one occurs, there will be devastation and more of it. God sends us warnings and more warnings but some do not pay heed.