A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 rocked Trinidad and Tobago close to midnight on Saturday, however there have been no fast experiences of harm or accidents.
The Seismic Analysis Centre (SRC) of the St Augustine campus of the College of the West Indies (UWI) stated that the quake was felt at 11:58 pm on Saturday.
It was situated at Latitude: 10.83N, Longitude: 62.37W and at a depth of 46 kilometres (km).
The quake was felt 97 km west-northwest of the capital Port of Spain and 119 km northwest of San Fernando.
The SRC stated that it was additionally felt 97 km east northeast in Carúpano, Venezuela.
The Trinidad and Tobago Climate Heart reported that the earthquake was felt as far north as St Vincent to as far south as northeastern Guyana.
It stated whereas there have been no fast experiences of accidents or injury, energy outages have been reported throughout northwestern Trinidad.
“The most important quake to strike inside 20 kilometres of tonight’s quake occurred on October eleventh, 2013, at magnitude 6.0,” the Heart added.
Some folks took to social media to report how they felt with one particular person saying “6.2 earthquake, worst I’ve felt in ages,” whereas the group Tobago Observers posted on Fb “6.2 in accordance with UWI Seismic Analysis Centre topic to adjustment. Wow!”.
One other particular person wrote “Simply felt a reasonably lengthy earthquake in Trinidad…6.1 on the Richter…all is effectively,” whereas one particular person stated “I used to be watching T20 World Cup…Afghanistan had simply gained their sport vs Australia and I used to be clapping…subsequent factor I really feel the bottom shaking…adopted by stuff transferring on a espresso desk..”
The quake got here 4 days after the nation recorded a tremor of three.9.
