Ryan Ba­choo

The dra­mat­ic up­lift of parts of Trinidad’s south­ern coast­line fol­low­ing twin earth­quakes in Venezuela last Wednes­day, is be­ing linked to a chain of af­ter­shocks and fault move­ments ex­tend­ing across the re­gion, ac­cord­ing to ge­ol­o­gist and ex­plo­ration man­ag­er Xavier Moo­nan.

Moo­nan, who leads a ge­o­log­i­cal team at Touch­stone Ex­plo­ration, vis­it­ed the af­fect­ed area at Gal­fa Point on Sat­ur­day, af­ter it was high­light­ed in a so­cial me­dia post, and de­scribed an al­tered coastal land­scape where sec­tions of beach and seabed have been pushed up­ward by as much as 20 feet.