The National Emergency Management Organisation, NEMO, says there have been no reports of damage here in St. Vincent and the Grenadines from the earthquake which occurred yesterday, and a second tremor which was recorded this morning.
According to NEMO, this morning’s tremor occurred at 9:27, near the coast of Venezuela.
The quake registered 5.9 on the magnitude scale, with a depth of 80-kilometres.
The Seismic Research Centre at the UWI in Trinidad and Tobago said the earthquake occurred at latitude 10.60-North, Longtitude 62.87-West, or 41-kilometres ESE of Carupano Venezuela.
Yesterday’s earthquake measured seven, and occurred at about five-thirty in the evening.