Flood-ravaged Trinidad rocked by 5th earthquake in 7 days

An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.8, rocked sections of the twin island republic on Thursday morning.

The   Seismic Research Centre  at the University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine campus, said this was the fifth earthquake within the past seven days .

The Seismic Research Centre says the quake  that occurred at 11:57 a.m. (local time), was located  at Latitude 10.62N and Longitude  62.03W, with a depth of 10 kilometres.

It was felt  57 km west of Port of Spain,  75 km north west of of San Fernando and 83 km west of Arima.

There were no reports of damages or injuries.