Ger­ard Best

A 6.4 mag­ni­tude earth­quake struck 74 Km north-west of Port-of-Spain at 10.10 p.m, The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies Seis­mic Re­search Cen­tre (SRC)re­port­ed.

The quake was so strong that it was felt as far as parts of­South Amer­i­ca and the East­ern Caribbean is­lands.

A seis­mol­o­gist from the SRC con­firmed that the event was the strongest quake to hit T&T since the 6.1 mag­ni­tude tremor of 1997.

The event was lo­cat­ed at 10.86�N 62.12�W. The mag­ni­tude was6.4 and depth 60km.

Lo­cal me­dia im­me­di­ate­ly re­port­ed pow­er cuts in many parts of Trinidad; sub­se­quent so­cial me­dia re­ports in­di­cat­ed­pow­er had been re­stored to some places.

In a state­ment, the Of­fice of Dis­as­ter Pre­pared­ness and Man­age­ment said there were no re­ports of se­ri­ous dam­age.

No wide­spread tsuna­mi threat ex­ists at this time, ac­cord­ing to NOAA, the US fed­er­al agency that mon­i­tors ocean ac­tiv­i­ty.