KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Jamaica Public Service (JPS) has indicated that power supply has been restored for all customers who were affected by outages caused by Monday morning’s 5.6 magnitude earthquake.

In a release on Monday, JPS revealed that approximately 132,000 customers in Kingston and St Andrew, St Catherine, Manchester, and St James were affected by the outages.

“The customers outside the corporate area were restored within a few minutes, while JPS worked over the past few hours to restore service to the Kingston and St Andrew customers in phases,” JPS said.

The quake, which occurred at approximately 10:57 am, was reportedly felt right across the island with the epicentre located approximately 10 kilometres south of Buff Bay, Portland.

The Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Haiti, United States Minor Outlying Islands, and Cuba also reportedly felt the impact.

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JPS added that: “Several power generating units and the power delivery system in the corporate area were impacted by the magnitude 5.4 earthquake that shook the island earlier today. The affected power plants, which belong to both JPS and Independent Power Producers (IPPs) were: West Kingston Power Plant, and Jamaica Private Power Company, Rockfort, and Hunts Bay,” JPS said in a release on Monday.

The company is continuing its assessment of the overall damage to its infrastructure, JPS said.