{"id":97824,"date":"2020-01-20T11:25:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T15:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=97824"},"modified":"2020-01-20T11:25:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T15:25:21","slug":"british-virgin-islands-bvi-on-high-alert-for-earthquakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/british-virgin-islands-bvi-on-high-alert-for-earthquakes\/","title":{"rendered":"BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS: BVI On High Alert For Earthquakes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Government of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) is now on high alert following the recent increase in earthquakes in the region.<\/p>

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According to the information and education manager with the Department of Disaster Management (DDM), Chrystall Kanyuck-Abel , the organisation is keeping a close eye on all earthquake-related activity.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are definitely on high alert right now; basically meaning we are monitoring the situation in Puerto Rico very closely, and our staff here is in daily contact with the staff at the Puerto Rico Seismic Network,\u201d Kanyuck-Abel said in an interview with the online publication BVI News.<\/em><\/p>

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She added that the frequency of tremors within the last month has left seismic authorities baffled and have even resulted in the creation of new terminologies to describe the recent chain of events.<\/p>

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\u201c We are experiencing a seismic swarm, which has been a series (of earthquakes) which began in late December (2019),\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The most recent tremor rocked St Lucia and two other Caribbean islands on Friday.<\/p>

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The Trinidad-based Seismic Research Centre (SRC) said the 3.9 earthquake was latest to affect the Caribbean in several days, and was located Latitude: 14.90, Longitude: 60.27W and at a depth of 10 kilometres.<\/p>\n

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