The U.S. Geological Survey National Earthquake Center reported a magnitude 6.0 earthquake 52 miles east of the islands of Antigua and Barbuda Saturday morning shortly before 11 a.m.

Affected countries included British Virgin Islands, Dominica, Saint Martin, Sint Maarten, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, U.S. Virgin Islands, Venezuela, Caribbean Netherlands, Saint Barthélemy, Antigua and Barbuda, and Anguilla.

Light and weak shaking was reported among nearby islands.

According to the tsunami warning center for the National Weather Service there is no tsunami danger for the U.S. east coast, the Gulf of America states, or the eastern coast of Canada. Based on earthquake information and historic tsunami records, the earthquake is not expected to generate a tsunami.

Further details were not immediately available.

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