Trinidad hit by two earthquakes on Sunday

An earthquake registering a magnitude of 5.1 jolted quite a few areas in Trinidad and Tobago on Sunday morning. 

No fast casualties or property injury had been reported.

Sunday’s rumble

The Seismic Analysis Centre (SRC) of the College of the West Indies’ St. Augustine campus disclosed that this seismic exercise befell at 7:34 a.m. (native time), emanating from a depth of 32 kilometers.

Port of Spain, the nation’s capital, felt the tremor’s power, as did areas positioned 100 km northwest of Arima and 105 km west-northwest of San Fernando in southern Trinidad.

Earlier disturbance

The SRC highlighted that an earlier quake of three.5 magnitude shook the capital at 2:13 a.m. (native time).

This tremor’s ripples prolonged far, being sensed 119 km southwest of St. George’s in Grenada and even 111 km northeast of Carúpano in Venezuela. 

The SRC identified that the earthquake had a depth of 132 km.

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