Quake shakes St Lucia, St Vincent

A temblor with a magnitude of 3.9 on the Richter Scale shook St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines last night, according to the Caribbean Media Corporation.

It said that the Trinidad-based Seismic Research Centre at the University of the West Indies (UWI) said the quake occurred at 7.34 pm (local time) last night.

It said the quake occurred north east of St Lucia and was at a depth of 78 km. There are no reports yet of damage or loss of lives.