(I know long time no post. I travel a lot more now, so I will be posting somewhat less often …)

A 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck Grand Cayman this morning. I only flew in this PM, so did not experience it.   However, people seems to have been quite shaken up.   With the terrible events in Haiti just recently, its not surprising.

From what I have been told and read, this in the only significant damage. Its a 20ft sinkhole n South Sound.

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Looks bad, but damage could have been worse.

A few facts …

The Cayman trench is the second deepest place on earth, second to Challenge deep which is somewhere off Thailand.  There is a major fault line that run south of the island.  So its not really surprising that we are seeing seismic activity here. Lets just hope that that was the end of it for a while.  Also, I know that there is a very strict building code here. When you build a house or commercial building, there are inspectors during the whole process and the place needs to be good for hurricanes & quakes. I am sure that was a factor today and why there was not more damage.

Anyway, all is normal!  Diving this week-end 🙂