Livin' the life...

First, a brief look at this year's (2007) hurricane season and it's effects..

"It was not a violent wind but a violent shaking - by the strongest earthquake to hit the Caribbean in 244 years - that signalled the official end of a very active hurricane season.

The season, which runs June 1 to November 30, saw 16 cyclones forming of which 14 became named storms, five hurricanes, and two major hurricanes which touched almost every country in the Caribbean basin, the US, and Central America, leaving 252 dead and at least US$600m in damage." [Full story]

Next, and more specifically, here's a reported summary of the effects of the Earthquake two days ago (which I initially blogged about here)..

"Hundreds of people were injured - two seriously - during the strongest earthquake to hit the Caribbean in more than two hundred years.

The French Caribbean island of Martinique, located between St Lucia and Dominica, took the brunt of the impact of the earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter Scale which struck around 3pm EST on Thursday.

Two people were seriously injured in Martinique's Lorrain district when they threw themselves out of windows as the quake struck. More than 100 more required medical attention said French overseas minister Christian Estrosi. ... In Barbados, another two people were injured during the stampede of thousands of panicking Barbadians in the capital Bridgetown." [Full Story]