An earthquake shook parts of Dominica on Tuesday evening.
Preliminary information from the UWI Seismic centre automatic detection system shows that the earthquake occurred at a magnitude of 3.7.
According to the UWI sesimic report, it was located 11 km NE of Roseau at a depth of 5km.
This Earthquake was recorded at 9:17 pm.
Another earthquake was recorded earlier at 9:00 pm this earthquake was measured at a 4.0 magnitude. There have been a few reports that this quake was also felt in Dominica.
But first time Dominicans feel a small tremor man? You all seem to forget that we had a series of them in the late 90s mam. They were even prepared to evacuate belle vie Chopin. What about also reporting the 4.0 that occurred of the coast of Antigua at the same time
Yeah, but after Maria everyone still traumatized. It was a massive one. Let’s pray for the caribbean
To me when I felt it, it sounded like huge boulders rolling down a mountain thumping the ground
The big one is coming shortly,God is giving you all the warnings daily,Too much evil and corruption in Dominica,the devil has taken control.It is coming.
I Do pray that all the people in Dominica are fine. Dominican people are resilient people and they will get through the challenges that they are faced with. God Bless everyone and protect them.
This is not the time for this and may the good Lord forgive you. Rather than being concerned about your fellow Dominicans and wishing them well you find the time to insults. You need to pray because GOD don’t like evil.
@ Jamie, You are a very sick person get back to the mad House emideately.
Wow!! I pray all is fine. Just less than a week ago (4-6 Dec) we (ITU) held a joint forum with Dominica: Multi-stakeholder Forum on the Role of Telecommunication/ICTs for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction.
This particular forum addressed, among other hazards, Seismic activity (Volcanoes, earthquakes) and Tsunamis and Early Warning Systems. Mr. Lloyd Lynch of the UWI Seismic Research Centre / UWI DRRC gave an extensive presentation on this topic.
I just hoped we had more of our policy makers at the Forum. When regional & International organizations bring the discussion to you, always take advantage of the opportunity to have as many participants as is possible as part of our capacity building drive. It is just basic common sense in order to save on travel or other modality for training and knowledge accumulation.
These are wake up calls to action if we REALLY want to develop a country with some resilience.
OR MAYBE WE PREFER ONLY POLITICAL TRIBALISM???
This tremor, which was centred just northwest of La Plaine at 23km depth, is probably associated with the magma chamber underlying the Boiling Lake – Valley of Desolation volcanic caldera. On active volcanic islands like Dominica, these events happen from time to time. If there are many of them in the same general area over the next weeks and months, volcanic activity could follow. However, as we have seen with previous recent (since the late 1990’s) tremor clusters in Dominica – in the southwest and at Morne aux Diables – volcanic activity at surface does not necessarily follow such a tremor cluster.
It was felt in Marigot for about 2 seconds; but it shook really hard.
Too much evil in the land,and too many people are silent.Imagine an administration accusing opposition members of staging a coup with a stalled truck and music speakers and using our money to bring in Caricom investigators to investigate??Was there an outrage? …..Too many wicked people on island ……See how opposition members are harrassed…!Is there an outrage? Where is the outrage?Please don’t tell me that is not the time for politics you wichek DLP souls out there …Fire burn you all ..
Skerrit Must Go
Skerrit Must Go
Lazy Skerrit Must Go Now
Never felt in the North.
Boy that was strong
3.7 alone???? Awaaa the Richter scale has issues because that felt like more than a 3.7 earthquake! 😩
It was a 3.7, we felt it worse because it was shallow ,as in not a deep earthquake, imagine some people even heard sounds that’s caused by the vibrations from the earthquake,it was so close that’s why some even heard it
When is basketball wives you watching instead of educating yourself you will never learn that a shallow quake will shake harder despite its rating on the scale.
Thanks for the info @derp
Frank N Stein no need to be a jack…….I was just being dramatic. I’m not the only one who has said that it was more than a 3.7 mag earthquake, and I don’t watch Basketball Wives genius.
Hmm we dead man !?? Hurican ,tremour, eath quake . What next a volcano? Repent !!!
Skerrit call the elections
Hmm alu start …
Paix Bouche not in dominica mn? I doe feel nothing