looks like islandwide

Puerto Rico, now Jamaica...

Be safe, friend.

we prepared for all possibilities.
Based on media and social media reports, this was felt all over the island. I'm betting low 5.

Please be safe. Please.

not here - nothing even fell

Thanks everyone

Just got off the phone with a friend at the airport who was on his way to a conference where I’m waiting for him. Not gonna make the connection because they had to empty the airport and hit reset.

It's epicenter is between Jamaica and Cuba

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/pt20028001/executive

that it was in the Caribbean sea

The last big one was in 1907

Can you reschedule quakes for some future time and farther out to sea?
Maybe limit them to a gentle massage -- nothing scary.

Thanks.

I don't see any tsunami watches or warnings..although I don't know where to look...I googled tsunami and found nothing.

PHEW

Not very large, so probably minimal damage from something like that, although it will rock some boats pretty hard.

That's not all that significant as tsunamis go. It will rock some boats hard in harbors, but won't cause flooding much.

The quake was very deep but they have to be careful

We had a tsunami warning about that size when I lived in California. So, I went to some very high sand dunes near the ocean and watched for it. It came. The water went up; the water went down. I went home.

It did cause some boats in a nearby harbor to bang against each other, though. That was it. 1-meter isn't much, really.

Damn we're lucky so far
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/pt20028001/executive

Stay safe!

That was a huge quake but thankfully it was in the sea and we only had a mild shake

No connection, I'm sure, but a lot of folks must have looked at the hills and thought about running for high ground.

As long as you didn't lose any rum or coffee, you should be fine. Glad you're safe.

Edit: LeftInTX called it a 7.3! I hope there's no tsunami causing damage!

for quite a while - nothing fell.

Stay safe.

Was mild here but lasted at least a minute

But glad to hear you're ok!!

in my neighborhood. Nothing fell

8. followed by the Northridge events of mother nature rolling over to remind us that's she holds us ... (oh yeah and a teeny-tiny one in Venezia ...)

Thanks

All good here so far

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for coastal areas.

who's from Kingston was telling me that there likely won't be a tsunami, as the trench between JA and Cuba is so deep. He's been through more than a few quakes in JA as a kid and agreed this was a big one. Told me about the time his bedroom wall opened and closed back up during a quake many years ago there. So the epicenter was in Lucea?

Stay safe, malaise!

We were very lucky that the worst of this was deep in that trench

I hope you have an earthquake safety plan & kit!!

I hope the aftershocks are mild.

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I started the thread
It was mild here believe me on that or I wouldn't still be connected. Not even a light blinked

Contacted friends and family on the coast. We're way more concerned about them.
The water won't reach us. Port Royal, Kingston proper, Portmore and then all the coastal areas - worried about Lucea, Westmoreland, and the rest of the coast.
It was closest to Lucea and Westmoreland.

Hope all your friends and family are okay.

That was before official talk of a tsunami. Those things are stealthy monsters!

Scared me when I read the report posted above and you didn't come back on.

I feel bad for any beach goers who may have had no idea. People hanging out on beaches sometimes just don't get the message. (I can't even see my phone screen in the sun)

And if they thought it was just a 5 something, they would have never thought of possible tsunamis.

Amazing how quickly news spreads -we're safe unless the shaking starts again and is worse.
There is no way we'd have power or internet connections if it was serious.
So far so good. I'mm off to cook dinner

Next time

I need to make room on my calendar.

No 1907 earthquakes, please. Just enough surf to make the kids giggle will be fine.

Please keep us in the loop! We want to make sure you and your family stay safe...

Stay safe.

as well as plenty of aftershocks.

we know our turn is coming.

And we saw what happened with Haiti 10 years ago...

We haven't had a really big quake since 1907

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Something like that in California would have taken down the whole place.

People on the coast are in full panic mode

Look at those holes in the ground

But part of our crew is going to be late to the conference.

Mother nature rules+++++

A lot of drama this week and mother nature is jealous.

Thinking of you.

that I'm not on a Caribbean cruise right now any where near Jamaica!

I lived in SoCal for 23 years so have been through the shakes a number of times. Worst one was the Sylmar quake of 1971 that was a 6.6 My roommate and I (students at UCLA at the time) thought it was the end of world when it woke us up at 6 am. Kept shaking and shaking and shaking.

I am very happy not to live in earthquake country any more.

prepare for aftershocks now.

(greetings from los angeles, where we haven't had one that big.... yet. Northridge was 6.7 and caused so much damage)'

stay safe.

this really shook up the region - Local 10 covering this

Glad you are safe..

being from CA I have been through many, and they still scare the crap out of me.

and apparently they felt it in Miami, so the energy must've gone to the north instead of to the south.

Glad you're in good shape.

Missed your insight and intellect while you were gone.

I'd like to see the reports from Eastern and North Eastern Cuba - and yes it's lovely to see you

Video out of Cuba shows they got more of a shaking and hoo boy, I'm out of practice on Cuban Spanish.

Nice to see you, too.

My cousin is off the island for a month. Some friends in Ghana gave her a trip. Lucky woman!

I’m glad you were far away from the epicenter. The Loma Prieta earthquake was a 6.9 on the richter scale and that caused a huge amount of damage! It took months to rebuild the freeway and to fix the Bay Bridge, both of them are the traffics bottleneck for cars crossing from Oakland to San Francisco. Traffic was a nightmare. You had to drive an extra hour more than the usual long commutes before the earthquake.

No injuries or deaths reported so far

I was wondering if a major fault was going to go with the smaller Puerto Rico quakes.

I have spend time in Jamaica, and on Grand Cayman. I have been to Hell and back!

The first time I was in Jamaica, for work, I was spending time in the Wyndham. I then moved into the Spanish Hotel in Kingston. I received panicked phone call the next morning: "Are you all right? We are trying to track down everybody who is at the Wyndham.. There had been a fire." Yup, the day after I left the thing burned.

The second time on Jamaica was part of a cruise, and I visited Nine Mile. Man, you should have seen the paraphernalia on sale there!...

As I have written to you before, Malaise, I have spend a lot of time in the Caribbean. I have done Hurricane damage assessments after both Irma (on Barbuda) and Maria (on Dominica). I have seen the awful destruction on these islands.

So whenever I hear something like this unfold, I think of everybody there. My thoughts, right now, are with you.

I remember that fire at the Wyndham - it started in the kitchen and spread.
Keep om helping us out without disasters.

All the tsunami warnings have been lifted.

At least I hope it is.

There is structural damage, cracks in buildings, a few school kids with panic attacks and so on. Of course there was choas on the streets as everyone ran out of buildings and headed home.
Listening to folks on the local news, it seems that lots of folks had stuff falling - we were lucky.
Meanwhile there really was no chance of a tsunami in Kingston.

oriented with the lay of the islands and I agree. The USGS has a great web tool for looking at terrain and fault lines and such. Since Kingston is on the south of the island and the quake center north of it, I can see that now.

Still pretty hairy situation.

We're South East - people love excitement

that could do damage. I wasn't sure of your location before now.

We'll survive or we won't. Makes no sense thinking about it.
Thanks for checking out the island. My Miami sis just said she'd head to Port Royal right now for some honey jerked shrimps

I'd love some of those! Glad everyone seems okay.

I have a lot of relatives in California and I keep an eye on that earthquake scene when something significant happens. Then again, I live on he edge of a massive supervolcano so...

Stay safe and keep posting.

and thank you everyone - truth be told Jamaica, Cuba, Cayman and the Bahamas were very lucky

There is some structural damage mostly in two western parishes

Just structural damage to some buildings - heard a school in Westmoreland is closed and they sent all the kids home early yesterday. Nice to see you