Series of earthquakes rattle Caribbean in first days of 2026
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- A magnitude 3.7 earthquake was recorded at 12:11 p.m.
- (local time), rattling Port of Spain as well as San Fernando to the south and Arima to the east.
- That quake occurred at a shallow depth of one kilometre.</p> <p data-start="967" data-end="1233">Earlier that same morning, at 6:24 a.m.
- (local time), a magnitude 3.8 earthquake was reported.
Several Caribbean countries were shaken by a series of earthquakes during the first two days of the new year, according to the Trinidad-based Seismic Research Centre (SRC) at the St Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI).
The latest tremor occurred early Friday morning, 38 minutes into the day, when a magnitude 3.5 earthquake struck at a depth of 10 kilometres. The SRC said the quake was felt 102 kilometres east-southeast of Point-à-Pitre, the capital of Guadeloupe, 109 kilometres northeast of Roseau in Dominica, and 158 kilometres north-northeast of Fort-de-France, the capital of Martinique.
On New Year’s Day, residents in Trinidad also felt seismic activity. A magnitude 3.7 earthquake was recorded at 12:11 p.m. (local time), rattling Port of Spain as well as San Fernando to the south and Arima to the east. That quake occurred at a shallow depth of one kilometre.
Earlier that same morning, at 6:24 a.m. (local time), a magnitude 3.8 earthquake was reported. The SRC said the tremor was felt across several nearby territories, including Basseterre in St Kitts and Nevis, St John’s in Antigua and Barbuda, and Brades in Montserrat.
The SRC confirmed that there were no reports of injuries or damage resulting from any of the three earthquakes.
