BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Apr. 16, 2020– Some Belizeans were shaken awake at about 2:00 this morning, April 16, 2020, by vibrations from a 6.0 magnitude earthquake in Savannah Bight, near the Bay Islands of Honduras. There were no reports of any injuries or damages in Honduras, but volcanodiscovery.com got reports from people in Mexico (200 miles from the epicenter), Belmopan (202 miles from the epicenter), and Caye Caulker (163 miles from the epicenter), who felt the earth shaking.

Honduras lies on the Western edge of the Caribbean tectonic plate, which passes near the south border between Belize and Guatemala, and there have been a number of earthquakes and earth tremors in this area of the sea off its coast in the past year. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center did not consider this latest earthquake a significant threat, so no tsunami warning was made.

In January 2018, seismologists registered a 7.3 magnitude earthquake off the Caribbean coast of Honduras, and a tsunami warning was issued for areas that included the coast of Belize, but it was called off after about two hours.