Nation News "TECTONIC PLATES. TSUNAMIS.
The two have hardly been in the vocabulary of Caribbean people.
But they should be.
According to the chief scientist of the United States-based organisation that studies, investigates, and reports on seismic activity in the Caribbean Basin, a tsunami striking anywhere in the Caribbean - from Cuba and Jamaica in the north to Trinidad and Barbados in the south - is not far fetched.
Tectonic plates along two ridges of the earth's crust in the Caribbean Basin move 22 millimetres every year, which in itself is a not a problem, but recently, the constant movement has created points where stress accumulates in areas where the plates no longer stand up, and the earth quakes. The result is an earthquake. The bad result, if the earthquake occurs under water, could be a tsunami."
The two have hardly been in the vocabulary of Caribbean people.
But they should be.
According to the chief scientist of the United States-based organisation that studies, investigates, and reports on seismic activity in the Caribbean Basin, a tsunami striking anywhere in the Caribbean - from Cuba and Jamaica in the north to Trinidad and Barbados in the south - is not far fetched.
Tectonic plates along two ridges of the earth's crust in the Caribbean Basin move 22 millimetres every year, which in itself is a not a problem, but recently, the constant movement has created points where stress accumulates in areas where the plates no longer stand up, and the earth quakes. The result is an earthquake. The bad result, if the earthquake occurs under water, could be a tsunami."
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