7.6 magnitude quake shakes Caribbean southwest of Cayman Islands, USGS says

MEXICO CITY — 

A magnitude 7.6 earthquake shook the Caribbean Sea southwest of Cayman Islands connected Saturday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Some Caribbean islands and Honduras urged radical adjacent the coastline to determination inland oregon debar beaches arsenic a precaution successful lawsuit of a tsunami.

The quake struck astatine 6:23 p.m. section clip successful the mediate of the oversea and had a extent of 10 kilometers, the USGS said. Its epicenter was 209 kilometers south-southwest of George Town successful the Cayman Islands.

The U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center said determination is nary tsunami alert for the U.S. mainland but issued a tsunami advisory for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The Cayman Islands authorities issued a tsunami menace alert and said successful its societal media channels that its "residents surviving adjacent the coastline are encouraged to determination inland."

Honduran authorities said determination were nary contiguous reports of harm but urged its residents to enactment distant from beaches successful the adjacent fewer hours, section media said.

The International Tsunami Information Center said "hazardous tsunami waves from this earthquake are imaginable wrong the adjacent 3 hours on immoderate coasts of" Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Cuba, Mexico, Honduras, Bahamas, Haiti, Turks and Caicos, San Andres Providence, Belize, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Panama, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, U.S. Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands and Saba.