3410 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://www.caymancompass.com/2020/01/30/earthquake-was-one-of-biggest-in-caribbean-history/The Oriente fault line, shown in red, which separates the Caribbean and North American plates, runs just south of the Cayman Islands and is responsible for much of the seismic activity in the region. It is a strike-slip fault, which means earthquakes it generates are caused by the sideways movement....Thu, 30 Jan 2020 23:26:00 +0100caycompass-43ac4c77f0ea7cc82ac9237594e6f21920200130232600https://www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=51595&SEO=coe-opens-monitoring-room30 de enero de 2020, 16:4 Santo Domingo, Jan 30 (Prensa Latina) The Dominican Emergency Operations Center (COE) opened Thursday a Monitoring Room and handed over an updated Earthquake Contingency Plan to the government. The COE Director, Juan Manuel Méndez, explained that no country in the world is....Thu, 30 Jan 2020 22:15:00 +0100plenglish-344c20421d313f0f697da3231ab841c220200130221500https://www.foxcarolina.com/news/magnitude-earthquake-strikes-off-the-coast-of-jamaica-and-is/article_9c6609b5-4678-5cb8-8a9e-8d9ddaaf912a.htmlA magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck Tuesday about 80 miles from Jamaica, shaking people in the Caribbean and as far away as Miami. A tsunami of 0.4 feet was recorded in the Cayman Islands at George Town, but no tsunami was observed at Port Royal, Jamaica, or Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.Wed, 29 Jan 2020 13:14:00 +0100foxcarolina-61a78558210c4a2b3158b283737a9de320200129131400https://dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2020/01/29/earthquakes-in-jamaica-and-cayman-cause-alarm-in-the-region/A strong earthquake of magnitude 7.7 was recorded yesterday Tuesday at 120 kilometers from the northwest corner of Jamaica and 80 kilometers from southeast Cuba at the edge of the Caribbean Plate at 19.10 GMT, at a depth of 10 kilometers. The quake was followed by a tsunami warning for Belize, Honduras, Mexico, Jamaica, Cuba, and Cayman Island.Wed, 29 Jan 2020 13:11:00 +0100dominicantoday-d2001489d2d97353ec0729ab3698e74e20200129131100