Kalain Hosein

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Layers of sand, mud and rock uplifted at Galfa Point, south Trinidad. Photo: Neil Sookram, June 29, 2026
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How did the Venezuelan Earthquakes Affect T&T?

Seven hundred and eighty kilometers away, the strongest earthquake Venezuela has recorded since 1900 was barely felt in Trinidad. Not a single report was filed with the USGS. Yet within days, the coast at Galfa Point had risen as much as 20 feet, a road at L'Envieuse had torn in two, ponds had sloshed over their banks, and a new island of mud had broken the surface off the south coast. Using one citizen seismometer, satellite imagery, and the geologists who went and looked, this is what actually happened, and why distance made it worse rather than better.