Large magnitude Mw7.6 #earthquake along Cayman Trough at NW boundary of #Caribbean plate. Mechanism is sinistral strike-slip.
This fault system already ruptured in Jan 2020 more to NE (on Oriente Fault) and May 2009 to the SW. ⚒️ 🧪

Source Geoscope @ipgp.bsky.social :
http://geoscope.ipgp.fr/index.php/en/catalog/earthquake-description?seis=us7000pcdl
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