A brief tsunami warning was issued for Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands on Saturday evening after a 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit the Caribbean Sea. The National ...

On February 8, 2025, a powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake hit the Northwestern Caribbean Sea ... between the North American and Caribbean plates. The plates shift at about 20 mm per year, with ...

It was the result of "strike slip faulting in the shallow crust near the boundary between the North America and Caribbean plates," USGS said. Shortly after, the U.S. Tsunami Warning System issued ...

At the location of this earthquake, the North America plate moves to the west-southwest with respect to the Caribbean plate at a rate of approximately - 20 mm/yr. Local to the February 8 ...

The Caribbean Sea is nearly three times larger than the Scotia Sea but is remarkably similar in shape and characteristics. The basin is also the result of a smaller plate — the Caribbean ...

No immediate damage has been reported. Numerous tectonic plates meet in the Caribbean. Plate movements have caused large-magnitude earthquakes, including a magnitude 7.0 quake that struck Haiti's ...