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Trinidad and Tobago rocked by fifth earthquake in seven days

Published:Thursday | October 25, 2018 | 3:02 PM

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.8 rocked sections of Trinidad and Tobago on Thursday morning.

The Seismic Research Centre at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine campus said this was the fifth earthquake within the past seven days.

The centre said the quake occurred at 11:57 a.m local time and was located  at Latitude 10.62N and Longitude  62.03W, with a depth of 10 kilometres.

It was felt  57 kilometres west of Port of Spain,  75 kilometres north west of San Fernando and 83 kilometres west of Arima.

There are no reports of damages or injuries.

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