6.8 Earthquake felt in Trinidad and Tobago
An earthquake hit Venezuela this afternoon at 5:31 pm Local Time. The earthquake caused countrywide panic in Trinidad and Tobago as it was extremely long and quite powerful.
The preliminary information from UWI Seismic Research Centre was:
UWI, SRC – Automatic Earthquake Location
DATE AND TIME:
2018-08-21 5:31 pm (Local Time)
2018-08-21 21:31 (UTC)
MAGNITUDE:
6.8
LOCATION:
Latitude: 10.51N
Longitude: 62.76W
Depth: 73 km
NEARBY CITIES:
55 km ESE of Carúpano, Venezuela
95 km NE of Maturín, Venezuela
131 km SE of Porlamar, Venezuela
The United States body USGS has stated that it was 7.3
UPDATE: USGS upgrades earthquake along the coast of northern Venezuela, west of Trinidad and Tobago, to magnitude 7.3 pic.twitter.com/JN6v51ntt2
— NBC News World (@NBCNewsWorld) August 21, 2018
There were reports of building damage and car damage as seen in the videos below. So far there have been no reports of damage to people due to the earthquake in Trinidad and Tobago. There has been major damage to buildings in Venezuela. BPTT building and some other buildings in POS were seriously affected.
Please keep safe everyone.
Please note we do not own any of these videos. They are currently circulating on Whats App.
UWI Seismic did a FB Live event to explain what occurred.
People are also using Facebook to mark themselves as safe
https://www.facebook.com/crisisresponse/valencia-sucre-venezuela-earthquake-aug21-2018/
If you have any problems or have structural damage please use the numbers below.
http://www.mytrinilime.com/2017/06/20/trinidad-and-tobago-emergency-numbers/
