A strong, early morning earthquake rocked the Caribbean islands of Dominica and Guadeloupe on Sunday, killing at least one person and destroying numerous homes. A child was crushed to death in Guadeloupe when a wall collapsed at his home in the southern coastal town of Trois-Rivieres, officials in the French overseas department said. The boy's age was not known and his mother and sister were injured. Several houses were destroyed and others were damaged in Trois-Rivieres, Radio Caraibes reported. Separately, a man was hospitalized when he jumped from an upper floor in his home in the southeastern coastal town of Capesterre-Belle-Eau, French regional officials said, speaking on customary condition of anonymity. Authorities initially reported that he had died. The temblor had a preliminary magnitude of 6.0, said John Minsch, a seismologist at the U.S. National Earthquake Information Service. The initial quake was followed by several tremors, including two with a 4.9 magnitude. Its epicenter was about 45 kilometers (28 miles) north-northwest of Dominica, near the Guadeloupe archipelago of Les Saintes. --More 2259 Local Time 1959 GMT
