Barbados, Trinidad, shaken by tremor

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, May 1, CMC – An earthquake, with a magnitude of 4.2, rattled Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago on Wednesday, the Trinidad-based Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of the University of the West Indies has reported.

It said that there were no immediate reports of injuries or destruction and that the quake occurred at around 10.34 pm (local time) on Tuesday night.

The quake was located Latitude: 11.85 North; Longitude: 58.99 West at a depth of 107 km and was felt 156 km southeast of Bridgetown, Barbados, 208 km northeast of Scarborough in Tobago and 287 km northeast of Arima in Trinidad. (CMC)

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  • @ Carolyn Robertson...correction ..it was indeed closer to Bdos than it was to Trinidad.

  • ....and JOHNSON CROW...almost a year gone and YOU are STILL a LOSER...the BLP still in POWER and YOU caan do not one RH bout it...almost a year and allya still got to operate out of the BOSOMS and BOWLES of GEORGE STREET....almost a year gone and allya still suffering from LARYNGITIS ...almost a year gone and still wunna doan know that VERLA DePeiza is NOT an ENT specialist and that GOOD NITE IRENE has NO experience in the MEDICAL FIELD.
    Mr.CROW ,almost a YEAR gone and YOU still doan know those things ?..ya JOHNNY.

  • @that JOHNNY who also goes by the name of a CROW...lord have mercy does NOT mention that it is almost a year and still there is NO INQUIRY into the REASONS and CAUSES as to why an ELDER told a FORMER PRIME MINISTER FREUNDEL JEROME STUART to GO TO HELL...almost a year and still no mention of 30 candidates that are likely to run as candidates in the next GENERAL ELECTION although some of DEM and their YARD FOWLS here keep on saying that it is going to come in 3 years time.
    That JOHNNY CROW is on record as saying LAST YEAR that ELECTIONS will be in THREE YEARS TIME...a YEAR has gone...but it is STILL saying 3 years...this NEW MATHS thing is SOMETHING ELSE jack.
    JOHNSON CROW.. almost a year has gone and you still talking SH8.

  • @ MARK MY WORK and his ENTOURAGE of GARBAGE.... that EARTHQUAKE occurred closer to that AUDITORIUM of LOSERS in GEORGE STREET than in St.Andrew.
    ...and that TREMOR felt by one or two was just the forerunner of that MASSIVE IMPLOSION that I WARNED all ya about this week.
    Imagine, wunna TWO MOST DECORATED LOSERS not naming ANY OTHER LOSER to be their SPOKESMEN...BOTH AH DEM have NEVER EXPERIENCED THE JOYS OF WINNING ANYTHING POLITICAL...yet they REFUSED to name any other LOSER some of whom already know how to WIN and HOW IT FEELS to walk up the steps of PARLIAMENT.
    More Earthquakes to come, Fire and Brimstone next down dey in GEORGE STREET....mark my word.

  • @ Carolyn Robertson....the base of Barbados is not closer to Trinidad that where the" Earthquake" was located......in other words, it was closer to Trinidad than it was to Barbados.
    @DE....spot on in both of your comments...that HEADLINE was MISLEADING TO A T,it should have read TREMORS FELT in BIM and Tand T...EARTHQUAKE RATTLING BDOS and TRINIDAD WHAT?
    To rattle... give out or cause a RAPID SUCCESSION of short, sharp sounds.

  • @MARK MY WORD, there were a series of effective earthquakes long before the people in red was on the east coast or was in office.

    @JOHNNY CROW, what does your publication has in common with the above headline? "Barbados, Trinidad, shaken by tremor"
    You all political foot stools, let the politics and politician cloud you all brains, so much so, that if some say "God is good" it would sound like politics to you all.

  • I am confuse with the article published.
    "An earthquake, with a magnitude of 4.2, rattled Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago on Wednesday."
    "the quake occurred at around 10.34 pm (local time) on Tuesday night."
    When did the earthquake really attled Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago?

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