{"id":11278,"date":"2018-08-31T03:47:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T07:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=11278"},"modified":"2018-08-31T03:54:53","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T07:54:53","slug":"relocate-the-capital-from-earthquake-sinking-pos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=11278","title":{"rendered":"Relocate the Capital from Earthquake- Sinking PoS"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Stephen Kangal
\nAugust 31, 2018<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Stephen<\/a>It is now compulsory that tribal politics aside, the capital of T&T must be removed in the medium term from its present earthquake- susceptible location in POS to one that is less vulnerable to the damaging effects of a seven and more seismic event that is nearer and less deeper than last Tuesday’s traumatic wake-up call.<\/p>\n

This must be a first step of any natural disaster mitigation\/avoidance strategy because were a strong above seven earthquake to strike again, POS will sink as proposed by the UWI seismologist, Dr Illias Papadoupoulos.
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\nThere is also no confidence-building evacuation plan from POS given its constricted location.<\/p>\n

T&T will come to a screeching disruptive halt with Point Lisas saving us.
\nAll our records, banking information, governmental infrastructure including the Central Bank will be lost forever in a water soaked grave in the Gulf of Paria under which lies a line of geological\/seismic weakness owing to the fracturing convergence of the Caribbean and South American Plates as shown in the image below courtesy of Wikipedia.<\/p>\n

North American Plate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In addition to the annihilation threat posed by the inevitable big earthquake, POS is also exposed to the potential disastrous effects of a Gulf of Paria-generated post-earthquake, plate tectonics tsunami that can also make the capital inoperative and strangled to extinction.<\/p>\n

Accordingly having regard to the frequency of disruptive flooding occurrences after small showers, the capital must be transplanted to a more sustainable location in Orange Grove for example. <\/p>\n

This is an urgent national imperative since we must undertake planning and contingency measures to pre-empt and\/or reduce the potential disaster that the expected ”Big One” threatens against the integrity, existence and continuing viability of T&T, God being our keeper.<\/p>\n

Tectonic Plates Converging in the Caribbean Area resulting in the Island Chain (Courtesy of the Petroleum Magazine)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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