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Professor Simon Mitchell, speaking Tuesday on Beyond the Headlines, with host Dionne Jackson Miller
Professor Simon Mitchell, Sedimentary Geologist at the Earthquake Unit, has confirmed that Tuesday's tremor, felt in sections of the Jamaica, was an aftershock from last month's magnitude 5.6 quake.
The 4.2 earthquake occurred about 1:27 in the afternoon.
It was located approximately 10 kilometres South of Hope Bay, Portland.
Professor Mitchell, speaking on Radio Jamaica's Beyond the Headllines, noted that aftershocks can be felt up to a year after a major earthquake.
"They can go on for a long time, it's just the reality; once something happens on a faultline it pushes the stress to other faultlines, and they might move quickly or they might sit there and then another little one moves then that one goes, and that short of thing," he explained.
Elaborating, he described the process as "like a set of dominoes, that you sorta push over very slowly."
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