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Big one in T&T
In reply to bravos
22 km from Rio Caribe, Sucre, Venezuela · 5:31 PM
In reply to culpepperboy
Was terrible...no major damage or casualties so far,hope it stays so.
Tsunami watch .
In reply to bravos
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6.8 earthquake rocks Trinidad
Stay safe
In reply to bravos
Stay safe.......felt it here in Bim as well.
Bravos
Pls change the title to Eastern Caribbean Earthquake.
Hope me fellow Caricom brothers and sisters are well.
Just talk to Yamfoot in Grenada and she's fine. Had to scoot under her desk but she's sounds calm and composed.
How everybody else ?
Stay safe.
Do you have power?
saw some video footage...wow
things rocking like crazy
Thanks everyone,yes Chrissy power just came back,also cell phones and data etc were out of service.
Listen people it was the most humbling experience of my life!! Biggest since 1968 or sixy sumtin they said.
Posting some pics and vids
Outside I-Max cinema and Pizza Hut Roxy on the One Wooodbrook Place complex.
Saw these earlier
Frightening.
Stay safe bro
In reply to LBW375
Thanks.
Here's a lil compilation vid of some damage.
Reports about magnitude still conflicting..
De top of de church break off..lol..thankfully no one was injured..
God is ah Trini!!
Had mine in 2007 when the 7.4 struck in Martinique. It rocked SVG like crazy. Ground moved in wave like motion, couldn't believe concrete can move like that. It was a WTF moment. Saw vehicles dancing and poles shaking. To this day, it was the most scared I had ever been in my life. A fast bowler never scared me so yet.
I felt this one today, but after experiencing 2007, this was tame in comparison but that's expected seeing 2007 one was closer than todays own.
In reply to jen
This nice lady's car was crushed .
What kind of soft roads and buildings all you making in T&T, man? A lil dibbly dibbly earthquake mash up everything!
Wait, Larr will demand photos of those Jersey barriers you recently made, to see if they were damaged in any way!
Anyway, looks like T&T was the worst hit, but the damage was not too bad overall. A few roads cracked and slumped, building facades cracked, without apparent damage to the supporting structures. Not too bad for a 6.8 earthquake.
Venezuela says it has suffered similar minor damage in the states near the earthquake. Everywhere else, Guyana included, was just shaken up.
In reply to LBW375
What's the big deal,isn't there an earthquake in Trinidad,why such petty statement.
In reply to Norm
We have been using roads long before you Guyanese knew what the word "ROAD"means.
In reply to Norm
Granite has the answer..
In reply to bravos
Thank you borse and keep building dem walls.
In reply to granite
Not ah crack!!
In reply to granite
All big buildings evacuated in and around P.O.S BP,BHP,UTC,some banks,malls etc..it's as if something bigger is coming and they're taking precaution..
Not a bad approach for now..we've seen these situations where the real big one came after a 'big' one..
Scary af!
In reply to bravos
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stay away from the crack lines tho
In reply to bravos
Stay safe bro the same goes for all your family and all my Trini peeps
In reply to ponderiver
Much thanks, we good ..
In reply to bravos
Happy that you are safe bro. A day later how would you rate the overall damage?
In reply to pelon
Thanks.
Minor.
just met some tourists from the UK here in Bim. They said they were in Trinidad yesterday when the first one hit, they were driving and thought vehicle had a flat. Then this morning on the 21st floor in their hotel room they thought that was the end for them.
Check this crazy footage. Check out the intensity of the second wave,just as I remembered it..just as you thought it was over it got stronger..
People we real fortunate...
In reply to bravos
Glad you safe bro.
So lucky no deaths or serious injury.
Building code held up somewhat.
In reply to DirtyDan
Yeah man,we've been using plenty steel in everything before I born..the littlest beam has steel in it here,steel has been very cheap here ever since..so many regular looking houses are very strong..that with a bit of luck and we came out ok with only few reports of property damage..
In reply to granite and bravos
Guyana does not have roads. We have something better - called "dutty dams"!
It's good to see T&T coming out of this with relatively minor damage. Apparently this was more a rolling earthquake than a jerky one.
In reply to Norm
Lol shake is shake yes...and well if de 'gods' gee we de roll instead of de shake fine!!
In reply to bravos
T&T is susceptible to earthquakes.
In more ways than one, yuh living on shaky grounds.
Did you feel the earthquake, where were you and what was going through your mind?
In reply to XFactor
I felt it firsthand,and we are used to earthquakes,it's part of life here,but that one was different that's all..
And the only thing was going through my mind was the safety of loved ones in various places at the time..phones were dead so I went where my kids mom and wifey were to check up on them and they were fine,but shaken,as we all were..
I simply observed buildings along the way and that kinda eased my initial concerns..
In reply to bravos
Good to know all is well. Seems like minimal damage to the island.
The big one is going to happen in California that will split the state in two and cause a huge tsunami.
In reply to bravos
Dem people seem so calm in the store. I would have bolted out of there. Every second counts in a disaster. I hope you teach you and yours what to do in emergencies.
Traffic surveillance cameras..
Check out the highway footage later in vid,had to be real hard for cars to pull over ...
In reply to XFactor
Yep I teach them what to do in all the places they frequent,each school,granmas etc..where to go in each of them..
There's a vid of them bolting out some groceries like it's judgement day,they're in snippets in other vids but trying to find them individually..real movie ting..
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