Guadeloupe's Soufriere erupts, killing 5,000 people there. Disastrous earthquakes rocked the Leewards following the eruption, with heavy damage to public buildings in Antigua. In Montserrat there were 6 deaths and many injuries. Only 3 of the 36 operating sugar works escaped serious damage (Webb's, Broderick's and Dagenham). Only a few buildings in Plymouth were completely destroyed, but almost all were damaged. All of the churches were unusable. Roads were buried, collapsed cliffs buried cottages and provision grounds [kitchen gardens -Bill] in the mountains.

On November 21, 2004, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurred offshore, 10 km south of Les Saintes archipelago in Guadeloupe (French West Indies). There were more than 30000 aftershocks recorded in the following two years, most of them at shallow depth near the islands of the archipelago. The main shock and its main aftershock of February 14, 2005 (Mw = 5.8) ruptured a NE‐dipping normal fault (Roseau fault), mapped and identified as active from high‐resolution bathymetric data a few years before.

Larger un-reinforced buildings such as public buildings, churches and the West Indies Oil refinery were damaged. Land slippage in some areas like Deep Water Harbour . Severe damage to the port, government buildings, infrastructural services of roads, electricity, water and telephones.

Injuries: 4 people
Strength: 7.5 on Richter Scale

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