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Second earthquake in Carribean
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Posted on 01/29/2020 9:26:55 AM PST by sodpoodle

MIAMI — A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck 86 miles northwest of Jamaica on Tuesday afternoon, sending seismic energy that could be felt throughout the northern Caribbean and as far as coastal Florida. The earthquake and ensuing aftershocks opened sinkholes on the Cayman Islands and swayed buildings from Jamaica to downtown Miami. Construction workers in Kingston kept laboring on a rooftop and schoolchildren took shelter under their desks as the ground shook. Mirrors vibrated in Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, where residents reported feeling such tremors for the first time in their lives. A man in the Bahamas thought he was having a heart attack. Hanging lamps in Miami skyscrapers swayed, leading some confused office workers to believe their lunches may have made them ill. Government offices closed early. As of Tuesday evening, there were no reports of loss of life from the earthquake. At 2:10 p.m. EST, a strong earthquake struck about six miles beneath the surface in the open water between Jamaica and Cuba with more force than the 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti, a quake that occurred only 15 miles away from Port-au-Prince and left an estimated 316,000 dead. On Tuesday, residents of southern Haiti reported feeling tremors. Tuesday’s earthquake struck along the border between the Caribbean and North American tectonic plates, a crack that stretches from Hispaniola to Guatemala. One scientist explained that both plates, massive slices of the earth’s surface, scraped each other as they moved in opposite directions. “It’s a slip plate fault like the San Andreas,” said Grenville Draper, an earth sciences professor at Florida International University. “North America moves a bit west and the Caribbean to the east.”

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TOPICS: Travel; Weather
KEYWORDS: frightening
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My niece is in England, but her husband and young daughter are in the Caymans. Scary stuff!!! An after shock of 6.6 is being reported on NBC.

1 posted on 01/29/2020 9:26:55 AM PST by sodpoodle
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To: sodpoodle

Yikes! We’ll be cruising there starting Saturday.


2 posted on 01/29/2020 9:28:50 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ("Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength" - Corrie ten Boom)
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To: MayflowerMadam
Probably nothing to worry about.

(Sorry. I couldn't resist.)

3 posted on 01/29/2020 9:33:01 AM PST by Gamecock (Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself. (TK))
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To: sodpoodle
"Government offices closed early." LOL. Of COURSE they did, but who would notice?
4 posted on 01/29/2020 9:34:21 AM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: sodpoodle

“...leading some confused office workers to believe their lunches may have made them ill.”


That’s often the first reaction to an earthquake...you think something is wrong with you. When the quake in in SF/Oakland there was a World Series pregame show being aired. When the temblor hit, the three men each looked at each other with a look that said “did you feel that too or is it just me?”


5 posted on 01/29/2020 9:35:37 AM PST by hanamizu
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I had an uncle who drank. He lived in Cal. We asked him if he felt the quake. He said, ‘I don’t know, I thought I was wobbly from drinking’


6 posted on 01/29/2020 9:38:23 AM PST by SMARTY ("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
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To: Gamecock


"Surely you can't be serious!"
7 posted on 01/29/2020 9:38:55 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SMARTY

8 posted on 01/29/2020 9:42:01 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: hanamizu

My young nieces and nephew were in a swimming pool when that quake hit.

They were swept from one end of the pool to the other.

They got out of the pool and were too scared to get back in.


9 posted on 01/29/2020 9:49:53 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: Gamecock

Please! If I ever hear Shelley Winters scream again, I’ll go mad!


10 posted on 01/29/2020 9:53:44 AM PST by donozark (Free Roger Stone!)
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To: Gamecock

I feel so much better! Thanks for that. :)


11 posted on 01/29/2020 10:31:37 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ("Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength" - Corrie ten Boom)
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To: dfwgator

And don’t call me Shirley!


12 posted on 01/29/2020 10:43:07 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: Gamecock

You ever catch the anti-God message in the movie?


13 posted on 01/29/2020 10:44:02 AM PST by ealgeone
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Don’t remember. I haven’t seen it in decades.


14 posted on 01/29/2020 11:18:33 AM PST by Gamecock (Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself. (TK))
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To: sodpoodle

Bar sign: “Today’s drinks will be shaken, not stirred.”


15 posted on 01/29/2020 11:46:48 AM PST by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: sodpoodle

My sister was about to board a plane from the Caymens to Charlotte yesterday. Airport was evacuated, but got back to operations shortly. Her description of the quake was that the building rolled from side to side.


16 posted on 01/29/2020 11:52:04 AM PST by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Do people on a large cruise ship feel anything if they are out at sea when a quake hits?


17 posted on 01/29/2020 11:53:04 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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