Slight earthquake felt in Trinidad and Tobago

AT about 3.16 pm on Thursday a slight earthquake or earth tremor was felt throughout many areas in Trinidad but seemingly not in Tobago.

In Port of Spain it was felt as a short, medium tremor which then settled and came back again at a lesser intensity.

One member of staff in Newsday's office in Scarborough, Tobago said he had felt nothing.

Social media carried reports of the quake being felt in areas as diverse as Arima, Chaguanas, Point Lisas, Santa Cruz and St Augustine.

A government employee in the towers at the Waterfront Centre, Port of Spain, in an online post complained that at that height the quake was quite unsettling to feel.

By 3.57 pm the Seismic Research Centre of the University of the West Indies (UWI), St Augustine, had posted a report online.

It said the quake was magnitude 5.8, which is termed as moderate. It has occurred at a location of 10.51N and 62.53W, and at a depth of 98.1 kilometres. The report cited nearby cities as Port-of-Spain, San Fernando Trinidad. An accompanying map suggested the quake had been centred in Sucre state, Venezuela, near Guiria.