The 2004 Les Saintes earthquake occurred at 07:41:07 local time on November 21 with a moment magnitude of 6.3 and a maximum EMS-98 intensity of VIII (Heavily damaging). The shock was named for Îles des Saintes "Island of the Saints", a small island to the south of Guadeloupe, which is an overseas department of France. Although it occurred near the Lesser Antilles subduction zone, this was an intraplate, normal fault event. It resulted in one death, thirteen injuries, and forty people being made homeless, but the overall damage was considered moderate. A small, nondestructive tsunami was reported, but runup and inundation distances were difficult to measure due to a storm that occurred on the day of the event. Unusual effects at a volcanic lake on Dominica were also documented, and an after