Guadeloupe hit by a magnitude 5.2 earthquake

More fear than harm. This Thursday evening, September 9, Guadeloupe was hit by an earthquake of magnitude 5.2 on the Richter scale.

If the episode did not last long according to observers, several municipalities located between Grande and Basse-Terre largely felt the effects of the earthquake. Luckily, however, no material damage or casualties were reported according to the firefighters on site.

The epicenter was located about fifty kilometers north of the archipelago. To be on the safe side, some residents explained that they had taken their families out in the event of a more violent aftershock.

This is not the first time that this kind of earthquake has hit Guadeloupe. Already last March, an earthquake of magnitude 6 on the Richter scale was felt. “Nearly a thousand earthquakes are recorded each year in the Lesser Antilles, caused by the rupture of faults close to the surface or on the subduction plane at depth, more rarely by the activity of the active volcanoes of the arc. Only a few are felt by the population ”, we can read on the website of the French seismological and geodetic network (Resif).

Despite everything, Guadeloupe and Martinique are classified in seismicity zone III, “the highest level of seismic hazard for French territory”.

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