On December 6th 2016 a 6.1 Magnitude earthquake rattled Trinidad and Tobago with the epicentre 25km southwest of Scarborough. Other than some social media chatter a day or two after the event and a few news articles flying around about minor damage around the island, what does this really represent and mean for us in T&T? What many of us don’t know is earthquake severity can be expressed in terms of intensity and magnitude; intensity being effects of the ground and buildings
