Two earth­quakes jolt­ed cit­i­zens out of their sleep yes­ter­day morn­ing, with some say­ing a loud ex­plo­sion-like sound was heard be­fore it was felt. 

Res­i­dents in cen­tral Trinidad said they were the most im­pact­ed as they re­port­ed feel­ing their beds or the house shake.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies Seis­mic Re­search Cen­tre re­port­ed that the first quake struck at 2.57 am lo­cal time with a mag­ni­tude of 2.6 and a depth of 3.0 km. 

The lo­ca­tion was es­ti­mat­ed to be 12 km south­east of Port-of-Spain, 20 km South­West of Ari­ma, and 35 km North of San Fer­nan­do. 

Then around 5.07 am, there was an­oth­er earth­quake mea­sur­ing mag­ni­tude 2.7 around the same area. 

This time, it struck with a mag­ni­tude of 2.7 and a depth of 18km. 

UWI Seis­mic Re­search Cen­tre in an up­dat­ed Face­book post, ex­plained what caused the rum­ble be­fore the earth­quake. 

“The P Wave is the fastest and the fre­quen­cy of this wave can end up in the au­dio range that hu­mans can hear. It can sound like a rum­ble or dis­tant thun­der or a noisy ve­hi­cle pass­ing by. 

“You may not feel it but it is strong enough to vi­brate the air and cre­ate the sound you hear,” the UWI Seis­mic Re­search Cen­tre stat­ed. 

Sev­er­al peo­ple took to so­cial me­dia say­ing they heard a loud ex­plo­sion-like sound which, they said, caused many roofs to rat­tle. 

One Face­book user said, “Cli­mate change is re­al, and it is wor­ry­ing that earth­quakes are oc­cur­ring so fre­quent­ly in the coun­try. We must keep pray­ing.” 

There were no re­ports of dam­age or in­jury.

— An­drea Perez-Sobers

An­oth­er poster said, “I did not feel the first one in Ch­agua­nas, but the sec­ond one sure­ly woke me up with a loud ex­plo­sion be­ing heard be­fore the earth­quake struck.”

There were no re­ports of dam­age or in­jury.