A British citizen has died during an earthquake in the eastern Caribbean, the Foreign Office confirmed.
The magnitude-7.4 earthquake was centred 14 miles north-west of Martinique's coastline and lasted longer than 20 seconds.
The Foreign Office confirmed a Briton had died but said it understood the death was not directly related to the earthquake.
A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We can confirm a British citizen died in Martinique yesterday afternoon but we are advised it was not as a direct result of the earthquake.
"We understand the individual died of a heart attack."
The earthquake collapsed the roofs of a bank and a store in the capital of the French island and left cracks in several other buildings.
The Foreign Office website says several thousand British nationals visit Martinique each year. It says that while the island sometimes experiences earth tremors they rarely result in any damage.
Martinique is an Overseas Département of France with a population of more than 380,000, according to the latest official census.
Part of the Lesser Antilles, it has a surface area of 420 square miles.
