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Comprendre et completer un catalogue
de seismes: le cas de Trinidad
∗
J. Vogt
†
Foreword
From 1983 on, Jean Vogt published several notes on the historical seis-
micity 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. Frechet
1 Introduction
N'importe quelle carte de sismicite montre que Trinidad est situe `aunveritable
carrefour sismo-tectonique.
1
Il se trouve que l'un des catalogues de la sismicite des
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