List of earthquakes in the Caribbean
Major earthquakes in the Caribbean are infrequent and are sometimes accompanied by tsunami.
Earthquakes
Date | Region | Mag. | MMI | Deaths | Injuries | Comments | Source |
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2021-08-14 | Haiti | 7.2 Mw | VIII | 2,248 | 12,763 | Severe damage | |
2020-01-28 | Jamaica, Cuba, Cayman Islands | 7.7 Mw | VI | 0.3–1 meter tsunami | |||
2020-01-07 | Puerto Rico | 6.4 Mw | VIII | 4 | 9 | ||
2018-10-07 | Haiti | 5.9 Mw | VI | 18 | 548 | ||
2018-08-21 | Venezuela, Trinidad | 7.3 Mw | VII | 5 | 122 | ||
2010-01-12 | Haiti | 7.0 Mw | X | 100,000–316,000 | Extreme damage and minor damaging tsunami | ||
2007-11-29 | Martinique | 7.4 Mw | VI–VII | 6 | 402 | ||
2004-11-21 | Guadeloupe, Dominica | 6.3 Mw | VII | 1 | 13 | Non-destructive tsunami | |
2003-09-22 | Dominican Republic | 6.4 Mw | VII | 3 | |||
1997-04-22 | Trinidad and Tobago | 6.7 Mw | VII | 2 | Damage | [1] | |
1993-01-13 | Jamaica | 5.5 Mw | VII | 1 | Some damage | [1] | |
1984-06-24 | Dominican Republic | 6.7 Mw | VII | 5 | Limited damage / tsunami | ||
1974-10-08 | Antigua, Barbuda | 6.9 Mw | VII | 4 | |||
1946-08-04 | Dominican Republic | 7.8 Mw | IX | 2,550 | Destructive tsunami | ||
1943-07-29 | Puerto Rico | 7.7 Mw | VII | Moderate damage | [2] | ||
1918-10-11 | Puerto Rico | 7.1 Mw | IX | 76–116 | Destructive tsunami | ||
1907-01-14 | Jamaica | 6.2 Mw | 800–1,000 | Tsunami | |||
1867-11-18 | Virgin Islands | 7.2 Mw | X | 24 | Destructive tsunami | ||
1843-02-08 | Lesser Antilles | 8.5 Muk | IX | 1,500–5,000 | Extreme damage | ||
1842-05-07 | Haiti | 8.1 Ms | IX | 5,300 | Severe damage and destructive tsunami | ||
1839-01-11 | Martinique | 7.5–8.0 Mw | IX | 390–4,000 | Severe | ||
1787-05-02 | Puerto Rico | 6.9, 8.0–8.25 | Tsunami | ||||
1766-10-21 | Venezuela, Trinidad | 6.5–7.5 Ms | IX | Severe | [3] | ||
1692-06-07 | Jamaica | 7.5 Mw | ~5,000 | Tsunami | |||
1690-04-16 | Antigua, Saint Kitts and Nevis | 8.0 Ms | IX | Some | Destructive tsunami | [3] | |
Note: The inclusion criteria for adding events are based on WikiProject Earthquakes' notability guideline that was developed for stand alone articles. The principles described also apply to lists. In summary, only damaging, injurious, or deadly events should be recorded. |
See also
- List of earthquakes in Cuba
- List of earthquakes in the Dominican Republic
- List of earthquakes in Haiti
- List of earthquakes in Puerto Rico
References
Sources
- NGDC (1972), Significant Earthquake Database, National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA, doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K
Further reading
- Corbeau, Jordane; Gonzalez, O'Leary; Feuillet, Nathalie; Lejeune, Anne-Marie; Fontaine, Fabrice R.; Clouard, Valérie; Saurel, Jean-Marie (2021), "A Significant Increase in Interplate Seismicity near Major Historical Earthquakes Offshore Martinique (FWI)", Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 111 (6): 3118–3135, Bibcode:2021BuSSA.111.3118C, doi:10.1785/0120200377, S2CID 237869398
- López-Marrero, Tania; Wisner, Ben (2012), "Not in the Same Boat: Disasters and Differential Vulnerability in the Insular Caribbean", Caribbean Studies, 40 (2): 129–168, doi:10.1353/crb.2012.0034, JSTOR 41917606, S2CID 132516977
- von Hillebrandt-Andrade, Christa (2013), "Minimizing Caribbean Tsunami Risk", Science, 341 (6149): 966–968, Bibcode:2013Sci...341..966V, doi:10.1126/science.1238943, JSTOR 23491375, PMID 23990549, S2CID 207789555
- Megan Torpey Zimmerman; Bingming Shen‐Tu; Khosrow Shabestari; Mehrdad Mahdyiar Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2022) 112 (2): 1120–1148. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120210157
External links
- Elizabeth Vanacore (Oct 23, 2019), Earthquakes in Paradise: Earthquake and Tsunami Monitoring in the Northeast Caribbean, IRIS Earthquake Science – via YouTube
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Earthquakes in the Caribbean
- 1641 Caracas (6.5)
- 1692 Jamaica (7.5)
- 1751 Port-au-Prince (8.0)
- 1766 Southeastern Caribbean (6.5–7.5)
- 1770 Port-au-Prince (7.5)
- 1787 Boricua (8.0)
- 1812 Caracas (7.5)
- 1839 Martinique (8.0)
- 1842 Cap-Haïtien (8.1)
- 1843 Guadeloupe (8.5)
- 1867 Virgin Islands (7.5)
- 1875 Cúcuta (7.5)
- 1900 Venezuela (7.7)
- 1907 Kingston (6.5)
- 1918 San Fermín (7.1)
- 1929 Cumaná (6.9)
- 1946 Dominican Republic (8.1)
- 1967 Caracas (6.7)
- 1974 Lesser Antilles (6.9)
- 1984 San Pedro Basin (6.7)
- 1997 Cariaco (6.9)
- 2003 Dominican Republic (6.4)
- 2004 Les Saintes (6.3)
- 2007 Martinique (7.4)
- 2009 Swan Islands (7.3)
- 2010 Haiti (7.0)
- 2018 Swan Islands (7.5)
- 2018 Venezuela (7.3)
- 2018 Haiti (5.9)
- 2019–20 Puerto Rico (6.4)
- 2020 Caribbean (7.7)
- 2021 Haiti (7.2)