Historical Seismology - Interdisciplinary Studies of Past and Recent Earthquakes




Foreword From 1983 on, Jean Vogt published several notes on the historical seismicity

of the Caribbean and adjacent countries of South America. He visited many

archives and libraries in the region as well as in Europe and the United States, and

collected a large number of new original sources. This paper analyzes several felt or

damaging earthquakes in Trinidad and Tobago. Vogt presents new original archive

findings that modify significantly the picture of the Trinidad seismicity as found in

the catalogue of Robson (1964). An introduction and many details about this and

the context of West Indies historical seismicity can be found in Vogt 2004 (A glimpse

at...), which announces the present text.

Jean Vogt prepared a draft of this paper in the months preceding his death

in 2005. The manuscript was left in a near-final state. The file containing the

manuscript contained several versions of the paper somewhat mixed together, with

handwritten notes and corrections. It contained also copies of the original sources

cited in the text. We edited the draft, trying to complete several references and notes.

[Our corrections are written within brackets. The paragraph titles are ours.]


J. Fr´echet


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