Late in the evening on January 28, at 19:10:25 UTC, an earthquake in the Caribbean strked with a 7.7 magnitude. The epicenter was located in a triangle between Cuba, Jamaica and the Cayman Islands at a depth of 10 km.
Tremors were felt on all adjacent islands.
Küba dan gelen deprem görüntüleri
#kuba #cuba #deprem #earthquake pic.twitter.com/HHdPLJH54r– Hünkâr Efendi (@hunkarefendi) January 28, 2020
People from high-rise buildings were evacuated:
https://twitter.com/TTakipRobotu/status/1222259705583755272
There is destruction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4SCB7gZKs0
Very strange dips in the earth:
Aftermath of earthquake in Grand Cayman … pic.twitter.com/5cywNuDYlw
– The Honey Badger ™ ️ (@The_Badger_jm) January 28, 2020
Earthquake happenings in the Cayman Islands 1/2 pic.twitter.com/wUGxuE9y9T
– Pedro (@p_dippy) January 28, 2020
https://twitter.com/MaximoSPQR/status/1222259034486689794
As you can see from these tweets, there are at least three reports of ground failures. If there are many such messages and everything is confirmed, this will be a very bad sign for the islands.
Since the epicenter is at the sea, a tsunami is expected. So far, waves of not more than 50 cm are reported:
INTERNACIONAL ⚠️ | Se detecta tsunami menor (~ 50 cm) en la estación de George Town (Islas Caimán) producto del terremoto de 7.7 Mw. pic.twitter.com/P9jr448lEo
– Red Geocientífica de Chile (@RedGeoChile) January 28, 2020
Lost communication with one of the buoys in the epicenter area. Perhaps a technical malfunction, perhaps a very large wave.
The trigger for the earthquake most likely was yesterday’s gamma-ray burst:
We follow the development of events.
