Washington DC:
An earthquake of magnitude 7.6 rattled the Caribbean Sea on Saturday evening (local time), US monitoring agencies said. The quake struck north of Honduras, about 130 miles (209 kilometres) off the coast of the Cayman Islands.
The temblor struck at a shallow depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), the US Geological Survey said.
The US Tsunami Warning System said there was a tsunami warning after the quake for the Caribbean Sea and north of Honduras. The agency said a tsunami was not expected on the US Atlantic or Gulf Coast after the quake, but it issued advisories for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
“Hazardous tsunami waves” set off by the quake were possible within 620 miles of the epicentre along the coasts of the Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Cuba, Mexico, Honduras, Bahamas, Belize, Haiti, Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua and Guatemala, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.
Further details are awaited.