A portion of Trinidad’s south-western coast was thrust nearly 20 feet upwards in the aftermath of the devastating twin earthquakes that rocked Venezuela last week, unsettling the Galfa coastline and trapping hundreds of sea animals among the rubble in a matter of seconds.

By yesterday afternoon Venezuela had reported more than 400 aftershocks that followed 7.2—and 7.5-magnitude quakes that have killed at least 1,400 along its northern coast line thus far. Miles away in Cedros, residents first discovered the raised seabed along an isolated strip of the Galfa coast on the morning after the quakes.

When the Express visited the area yesterday afternoon, parts of earth had been pushed upward by multiple feet, lifting a shoreline littered with hundreds of dead or dying fish, crabs, clams and even a stingray. Small pools of bubbling water had settled along parts of the beachside, some emitting an unidentified substance.