CARIBBEAN-EARTHQUAKE-Earthquake rattles three Caribbean islands

An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.8 rattled several cities in the Caribbean on FRiday, but there were no immediate reports of damage of injuries.

The Trinidad-based Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of the St. Augistine campus of the Universty of the West Indies (UWI) said that the quake occurred at 10.59 am (loccal time) and was at a depth of 142 kilometers (km).

It said that the quake was felt 33 km north east of Kinstown, the capital of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 67 km, south, south west of Castries in St.Lucia and 128 km south of Fort-de-France, the capital of the French island of Martinique.

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