(Reuters) -A Tsunami warning was canceled in the Caribbean Sea after the region’s most powerful earthquake in four years struck in the sea north of Honduras on Saturday. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported the quake’s magnitude as 7.6, while the German Research Center for Geosciences reported a 7.5 magnitude, both at a depth of […]
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Tsunami warning canceled after powerful quake strikes Caribbean sea
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(Reuters) -A Tsunami warning was canceled in the Caribbean Sea after the region’s most powerful earthquake in four years struck in the sea north of Honduras on Saturday.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported the quake’s magnitude as 7.6, while the German Research Center for Geosciences reported a 7.5 magnitude, both at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles).
The U.S. Tsunami Warning System had initially forecast waves of up to 3 meters for Cuba and between 0.3 and 1 meter for Honduras and the Cayman Islands but later said the threat had passed.
The U.S. Tsunami Warning System had also issued advisories for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands following the quake, which was later canceled.
It was unclear if there was any movement or damage on land.
The quake was the biggest to hit the region since 2021, when a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
(Reporting by Gursimran Kaur, Nilutpal Timsina and Oliver Griffin;Editing by Matthew Lewis, Aurora Ellis, and Saad Sayeed)