HEAVY QUAKE ...Residents panic as powerful tremor strikes

Antigua Sun: "A powerful earthquake rocked the region yesterday, causing panic and amazement in Antigua and Barbuda and neighbouring territories, but no reports of significant damage locally. The earthquake was initially rated at 7.3 magnitude by the University of the West Indies Seismic Research Unit (SRU) in Trinidad & Tobago, but was later confirmed at 7.4 by the US Geological Survey. It hit at 3 p.m. with strong tremors felt as far south as Guyana, on the northern edge of South America , and as far north as the US Virgin Islands. According to preliminary reports from the SRU, the epicentre of the earthquake was off the east coast of Martinique at a depth of 143.1 km or nearly 89 miles below sea level."