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Montserrat Soufriere Hills Volcano Eruption Anniversary

This month we commemorate the onset of the eruption of the Soufrière Hills Volcano (SHV) in Montserrat which began in 1995. The Montserrat Volcano Observatory (MVO) was established to monitor the volcano during this period. Fifty percent of the island’s population was evacuated to the north of the island and over 7000 people were displaced, with nineteen confirmed deaths.
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UWI, SRC – Automatic Earthquake Location

DATE AND TIME:
2017-07-19 09:31 am (Local Time)
2017-07-19 13:31 (UTC)

Earthquake South West of Trinidad
Jun.13.2017

On June 13th at 4:35 pm local time, an earthquake occurred south west of Trinidad. It was located at 10.04°N and 61.90°W with a magnitude of 4.5 and depth of 79km.  Please note that these results were reviewed by a seismologist.

UWI, SRC – Automatic Earthquake Location
DATE AND TIME:
2017-06-12 02:15 am (Local Time)
2017-06-12 06:15 (UTC)
MAGNITUDE:
4.2
LOCATION:
Latitude: 14.08N
Longitude: 60.01W
Depth: 10 km
NEARBY CITIES:
107 km E of Castries, Saint Lucia
116 km NW of Bridgetown, Barbados
132 km SE of Fort-de-France, Martinique
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DISCLAIMER: this event has NOT been reviewed by an analyst. It was automatically located by a seismological computational system, therefore, it is a PRELIMINARY result and this may vary when new additional data are processed.
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