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For The Record: Earthquake Rocks Anguilla
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A full week has elapsed, but for the record it is important for The Anguillian to report that a strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 violently shook Anguilla and a number of other Caribbean islands on Thursday, November 29, 2007 at about 3.00 p.m.
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Map shows epicentre of earthquake
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The earthquake spread panic in Anguilla and the other islands as workers and persons at home fled outside. Adding to the fear of the long tremor was the fact that items began falling off shelves in supermarkets and homes. There were reports that a few persons might have been traumatised. No damage to buildings was reported in Anguilla
In Martinique, where the earthquake was closer, there were reports that an Englishman died after suffering a heart attack. It was also reported that buildings collapsed in Martinique and nearby Barbados and about a third of Martinique was without electricity. The reports further stated that some persons there had injured themselves when they jumped through windows. About 100 persons required medical treatment in Martinique, according to the reports.
It was said that in Barbados the Chief of the Emergency Services was injured during a rescue attempt believed to have been caused when several buildings were damaged or destroyed.
In Guadeloupe there was a police report that fires had broken out in the island’s major city of Pointe-a-Pitre.
The epicentre of the earthquake was located about 14 miles north northwest of Le Morne-Rouge, Martinique at a depth of 90 miles. The earthquake sent shock waves across the Caribbean to Anguilla, Montserrat, the British and US Virgin Islands, St. Kitts-Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Guadeloupe, Guyana and Venezuelan.
United States Geological Survey geophyscist, Stuart Sipkin, was quoted as saying: “Earthquakes of this magnitude aren’t nearly as common [in the Caribbean] as they are in the Pacific Rim. They’ve occurred in the past, and there have even been tsunami-producing earthquakes in the Caribbean. There just hasn’t been one for quite a while.”