An earthquake of the strength 7.6 shook the Caribbean sea southwest of the quays on Saturday. According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), some islands and countries asked people near the coast to move in the interior of the country.
The quake beat at 6:23 p.m. local time in the middle of the sea and had a depth of 10 kilometers, the USGS said. His epicenter was 209 kilometers of George Town on the quays.
The US Tsunami warning center said there was no tsunami alarm for the US mainland, but there was a tsunami advice for Puerto Rico and the subsequent US maiden islands.
The explanation of alarms in the northwestern region of Puerto Rico led people to leave the coastal areas and produce heavy traffic, according to local media.
The Cayman Islands of Danger Management asked the residents near the coast to move to the interior and to higher soil. Wave heights were expected from 0.3 to one meter.
The Puerto Rico-GouVerneur Jenniffer González-Colón said in a statement that she came into contact with emergency agencies after the Tsunami Council, but she recommended that you left nobody to leave the coast.
The Dominican government also spent a Tsunami alarm and recommended residents on the coast to “high in high areas of more than 20 meters and two kilometers in the interior”. But the warning was canceled later.
The Cuban government asked people to leave beach areas. The Bahamas Department of Meteorology also published a Tsunami Council, but asked its residents to only be “vigilant”.
The Honduran authorities said that there were no direct reports on damage, but they asked the residents to keep themselves away from the beaches.
Later, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the US government of the US government, “Tsunami waves that reach one to three meters above the flood level are possible along some coasts of Cuba.”
“The actual amplitudes on the coast can vary due to uncertainties in the forecasts and the local characteristics of forecast amplitudes,” said the agency in a report.
