Jamaica, Hurricane Melissa
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Recovery, rescue efforts continue in Jamaica
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A magnitude 4.2 earthquake was felt in sections of Jamaica on Sunday afternoon. Reports of the quake started just after 2:07 pm. The Earthquake Unit says the epicentre was located 10 kilometres south of Buff Bay,
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba — People across the northern Caribbean were digging out from the destruction of Hurricane Melissa on Thursday as deaths from the catastrophic storm climbed.
Hurricane Melissa exploded Monday into a Category 5 monster, threatening more than 25 million people across Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba. The powerful storm is expected to make landfall on Jamaica Tuesday morning, though its outer bands had already begun unleashing fierce winds and rain on the island.
The hurricane weakened to a Category 3 after carving a path of destruction across Jamaica. Limited communications there have left officials with only partial reports as they seek to assess the scale of the damage.
A magnitude 6.8 earthquake was recorded in the Beaus region on Monday morning, according to seismic data reviewed manually by authorities. The quake struck at 7:38 a.m. local time (12:38 UTC) at a shallow depth of less than 30 kilometers, centered at latitude 16.54°N and longitude 59.49°W.
Hurricane Melissa will go down as one of the worst hurricanes ever in the Atlantic Ocean, with the hurricane reaching a strength that only a handful of storms have achieved in recorded history. Melissa was so powerful—with astounding 185-mile-per-hour peak winds—that it literally made the ground tremble hundreds of miles away in Florida,
A shallow magnitude 6.5 earthquake hit off the coast of the French overseas territory of Guadeloupe, United States seismologists said, with no damages or injuries immediately reported by authorities.
CBS News Miami has been in touch with families living through the aftermath, including Marvin Edwards, who rode out the hurricane in Montego Bay.
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