Nevis Disaster Manager – Mr. Lester Blackett
Charlestown, Nevis
November 04, 2008
Director of the Nevis Disaster Management Office, Mr. Lester Blackett during a routine Emergency response Press Conference announced Monday that the earthquake felt on Nevis Sunday at approximately 4:05 am local time, was consistent with tectonics event and was not linked to volcanic activity. Blacket based this revelation on the University of the West Indies (UWI) Seismic Research Unit (SRU) Scientific Advisory on earthquakes and volcanoes activities for most of the Easterm Caribbean countries.
He explained that in 16 years, St Kitts and Nevis experienced an unprecedented amount of earthquakes, mainly attributed by the Caribbean plate boundary, situated just north of Puerto Rico (PR) and just east of most of the Caribbean Islands. This he said accounted for the many earthquakes documented on the Caribbean Scale and assured the nation that the series of recent earthquakes activity on Nevis, are normally what has happened over hundreds of thousands of years.
