Earthquake 2018

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arthquake…. what a big shake in more than 100 years, knocking out power and toppling supermarket shelves.

Damage from the 7.3-magnitude quake, which shook the nation’s northeastern coast and parts of the Caribbean, was limited by the depth of tremors beneath the Earth’s surface.

The US Geological Survey measured the earthquake at a depth of 76 miles (123km), with an epicentre a few miles off the Cariaco peninsula.

 “Shaking does die off at a distance,” seismologist Lucy Jones, a research associate with the California Institute of Technology, said. 

Source:Reuters