A quake was recently recorded near St. Kitts, according to information from the University of the West Indies-Seismic Research Centre (UWI-SRC).

The 3.7 quake took place on Friday Feb 21^st, at 10:25 am (SKN’s time) and occurred 75 km North-North East Basseterre.

It occurred at a depth of 10 km and its coordinates was Latitude 17.94 degrees N, Longitude: 62.51 degrees W. St. Kitts coordinates are latitude: 17.35 N, longitude: 62.78 W.

Other nearby cities included: Saint John’s, Antigua and Barbuda and Brades, Montserrat. There were no felt reports. It comes about 30 days after a 3.7 quake was recorded near Basseterre on Jan. 20^th.

The reason for the quakes are, according to UWI SRC “in general, the two busiest zones within the Lesser Antilles arc are the Antigua-Barbuda zone and the north of Paria peninsula zone.”