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Trinidad and To­ba­go was rocked by a mag­ni­tude 5.5 earth­quake at 8.41 pm on Sun­day, ac­cord­ing to the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies’ Seis­mic Re­search Cen­tre (UWI-SRC). Shak­ing from this earth­quake was felt as far away as Grena­da.

Ac­cord­ing to the Of­fice of Dis­as­ter Pre­pared­ness and Man­age­ment (ODPM), there were no re­ports of dam­age or in­juries, and no re­quests for as­sis­tance arose from the event. They in­di­cat­ed that the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT) con­duct­ed a check on its net­work in the af­ter­math of the earth­quake, which found no is­sues.

The main earth­quake was fol­lowed by two af­ter­shocks of 3.8 and 4.4 mag­ni­tudes, oc­cur­ring at 10.08 pm (May 11) and 2.49 am (May 12), re­spec­tive­ly. UWI-SRC da­ta in­di­cat­ed that this was the 15th earth­quake greater than 3.4 mag­ni­tude with­in the last month and with­in 150 kilo­me­tres of Port-of-Spain.