By: Tito Chapman
Over the past seven days, the UWI Seismic Research Centre has recorded five earthquake near Trinidad and Tobago. The recording registered with a magnitude of 4.8.
Preliminary reports indicate that no damages have been reported.
According to the UWI, SRC – Automatic Earthquake Location, the details are as follows:
DATE AND TIME:
2018-10-25 11:57 am (Local Time)
2018-10-25 15:57 (UTC)
MAGNITUDE:
4.8
LOCATION:
Latitude: 10.62N
Longitude: 62.03W
Depth: 10 km
NEARBY CITIES:
57 km W of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
75 km NW of San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago
83 km W of Arima, Trinidad and Tobago
On October 23, 2018, two earthquakes were recorded within hours of each other.
On October 21, 2018, a 5.1 earthquake was recorded just 78 kilometres north-east of Tobago.
On October 20, 2018, a 4.2 earthquake was recorded between Trinidad and Barbados.
