Trinidad Rattled By Strong Tremor

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, March 6, 2020 (CMC) – An earthquake, with a magnitude of 5.1, rocked Trinidad, last night, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

The Trinidad-based Seismic Research Centre (SRC), of the St. Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), said that the quake occurred at 10.44 pm (local time) and was located at Latitude: 10.93N, Longitude: 62.14W, at a depth of 83 kilometers (km).

It said that the tremor was felt 76 km north-west of the capital, Port of Spain, 100 km west-north-west of Arima, east of here, and 106 km north-west of San Fernando, south of here.

Thursday night’s tremor is the third, within a one-week period, to rattle Trinidad and Tobago. Late last month, two quakes, with magnitudes .4.2 and four, shook the island, within a 12-hour period.