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Big one in T&T

 
bravos 2018-08-21 17:59:04 

7+ I'm hearing.

 
culpepperboy 2018-08-21 18:01:16 

In reply to bravos

Magnitude 7.3 earthquake
22 km from Rio Caribe, Sucre, Venezuela · 5:31 PM

 
bravos 2018-08-21 18:18:30 

In reply to culpepperboy

Was terrible...no major damage or casualties so far,hope it stays so.shock


Tsunami watch .

 
Dan_De_Lyan 2018-08-21 18:23:38 

In reply to bravos

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6.8 earthquake rocks Trinidad

Stay safe

 
cherri 2018-08-21 18:48:56 

In reply to bravos

Stay safe.......felt it here in Bim as well.

 
Dan_De_Lyan 2018-08-21 19:03:13 

UWI update

 
Dan_De_Lyan 2018-08-21 19:11:32 

live

 
LBW375 2018-08-21 19:22:42 

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 ?

 
Chrissy 2018-08-21 19:33:20 

Stay safe.
Do you have power?

 
doosra 2018-08-21 19:49:16 

saw some video footage...wow

things rocking like crazy

 
bravos 2018-08-21 19:57:50 

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.

 
bravos 2018-08-21 20:03:04 

BP Head Office OPS POS

Massy Stores Westmoorings..

 
LBW375 2018-08-21 20:11:17 

Saw these earlier

Frightening.

Stay safe bro

 
bravos 2018-08-21 20:14:26 

In reply to LBW375

Thanks.

Here's a lil compilation vid of some damage.

 
bravos 2018-08-21 20:14:53 

Reports about magnitude still conflicting..

 
bravos 2018-08-21 20:44:11 

De top of de church break off..lol..thankfully no one was injured..

God is ah Trini!! smile

 
jen 2018-08-21 21:22:35 

Listen people it was the most humbling experience of my life!! Biggest since


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.

 
bravos 2018-08-21 22:12:05 

In reply to jen

This nice lady's car was crushed .

 
bravos 2018-08-21 22:19:59 

Imagine what these guys went through..

 
bravos 2018-08-21 22:36:50 

Biggest in 200 years..

 
bravos 2018-08-21 22:49:12 

Best vid yet..

 
Norm 2018-08-21 23:54:44 

What kind of soft roads and buildings all you making in T&T, man? A lil dibbly dibbly earthquake mash up everything! smile

Wait, Larr will demand photos of those Jersey barriers you recently made, to see if they were damaged in any way! smile

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.

 
granite 2018-08-22 05:41:34 

In reply to LBW375
What's the big deal,isn't there an earthquake in Trinidad,why such petty statement.

 
granite 2018-08-22 05:43:26 

In reply to Norm
We have been using roads long before you Guyanese knew what the word "ROAD"means.

lol lol lol

 
bravos 2018-08-22 10:47:48 

In reply to Norm

Granite has the answer.. lol

 
granite 2018-08-22 11:01:38 

In reply to bravos
Thank you borse and keep building dem walls.

lol

 
bravos 2018-08-22 11:12:16 

In reply to granite

Not ah crack!! wink razz smile

 
Emir 2018-08-22 11:12:56 

In reply to granite

big grin

 
bravos 2018-08-22 11:14:23 

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!

 
Dan_De_Lyan 2018-08-22 13:21:03 

In reply to bravos

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stay away from the crack lines tho

 
ponderiver 2018-08-22 14:50:47 

In reply to bravos

Stay safe bro the same goes for all your family and all my Trini peeps

 
bravos 2018-08-22 16:27:56 

In reply to ponderiver

Much thanks, we good .. cool

 
pelon 2018-08-22 16:45:46 

In reply to bravos

Happy that you are safe bro. A day later how would you rate the overall damage?

 
bravos 2018-08-22 21:11:21 

In reply to pelon

Thanks.

Minor.

 
bravos 2018-08-22 21:47:01 

God is ah Trini?

 
ayub 2018-08-22 22:19:13 

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.

 
bravos 2018-08-23 02:02:05 

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...

 
DirtyDan 2018-08-23 07:21:32 

In reply to bravos

Glad you safe bro.

So lucky no deaths or serious injury.

Building code held up somewhat.

 
bravos 2018-08-23 21:15:52 

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.. cool

 
Norm 2018-08-23 23:10:14 

In reply to granite and bravos

Guyana does not have roads. We have something better - called "dutty dams"! smile

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.

 
bravos 2018-08-24 09:54:38 

In reply to Norm

Lol shake is shake yes...and well if de 'gods' gee we de roll instead of de shake fine!! cool

 
XFactor 2018-08-24 11:01:09 

In reply to bravos

T&T is susceptible to earthquakes.

In more ways than one, yuh living on shaky grounds. lol

Did you feel the earthquake, where were you and what was going through your mind?

 
bravos 2018-08-24 11:06:29 

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..

 
XFactor 2018-08-24 11:11:38 

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.

 
bravos 2018-08-24 11:18:59 

All kinda interesting footage surfacing ..

 
XFactor 2018-08-24 11:28:47 

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.

 
bravos 2018-08-24 11:32:00 

Traffic surveillance cameras..


Check out the highway footage later in vid,had to be real hard for cars to pull over ...

 
bravos 2018-08-24 11:34:04 

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..