The Earthquake Damage | Mg 5.6 |Claverty 🇯🇲

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:04]Must not notice that.

[00:00:06]>> You see?

[00:00:07]>> Wow.

[00:00:08]>> You see?

[00:00:12]>> Mhm.

[00:00:14]So, when you when you when you had the the um the engineer them, well, the you said the Minister of Labor?

[00:00:20]>> Yes, Minister of Labor.

[00:00:23]>> When when they came when they came, did they give you any recommendation?

[00:00:27]>> They they they >> You can come out here. You can go back.

[00:00:32]>> Okay.

[00:00:33]>> See see out here?

[00:00:36]>> [snorts] >> Mhm.

[00:00:38]>> When they came, they they went in. They said I'm going to have to keep on calling them because they keep on calling them because when they look at it now, you see that, you know? Because it's what we got a little one lately and they start drop down more.

[00:00:50]They they come in >> Oh, so you're saying that the one that would happen on on May the 1st?

[00:00:53]>> Yes.

[00:00:54]>> They start drop down more?

[00:00:55]>> Yes.

[00:00:55]>> So, when it drop down, what what do you do?

[00:00:57]>> We have to take on it till after just take up the money. If there ain't fire here now, spread it up on in the middle here.

[00:01:04]I do like that.

[00:01:06]>> Mhm.

[00:01:07]Mhm. Self it was self-construction.

[00:01:10]>> Yeah.

[00:01:11]>> Okay, so you're saying more than likely you'll have to go have you know, the proper professional come in and assist you because the truth is is that the whole of gravity here, so they're near to the fault line where the earthquake did happen.

[00:01:25]>> Yeah.

[00:01:26]>> Um last year. But not only that, from what it is that I'm seeing what I'm mapping is that you know, this our earth here, it it can shift very easy.

[00:01:36]Understand because the rocks them loose.

[00:01:40]Right? So, you know, we don't have a good strong solid foundation. So, in terms of how you have to build, you have to build specific to the foundation.

[00:01:47]>> All right, sir. I appreciate what you what you're trying to say. So, what you're saying that we are because we were planning to see if we could take this down.

[00:01:53]>> Uh-huh.

[00:01:54]>> If we could have do it back on our own because >> Don't before you do be on your own get a a civil engineer or a structural engineer. So, go to the Port Antonio call the Port Antonio Municipal Corporation. Ask them for an engineer to come and do an assessment on your property.

[00:02:10]In addition to the engineer, a geologist should also come cuz I am a geologist.

[00:02:16]Right? A geologist should also come and basically provide whoever is going to be doing the construction work with the necessary geological information that they would know how to build specific to the foundation, right? Because when the earth shake the earth basically can result in a certain kind of speed of shaking that can result in the foundation just moving rapid and if the foundation not built to manage that kind of speed at which the earthquake a shake you going to notice all them cracks here. And if if it continue like this as we can see a going with a frequency of these minor earthquakes then it going to just basically, you know, feel eventually.

[00:02:55]And you know you