List of earthquakes in the Caribbean
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Major earthquakes in the Caribbean are infrequent and are sometimes accompanied by tsunami.
Earthquakes
| Date | Region | Mag. | MMI
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Deaths | Injuries | Comments | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 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.
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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
- ^ "M 5.5 - 3 km N of Easington, Jamaica". earthquake.usgs.gov.
- ^ "M 7.7 - 45 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico". Retrieved October 12, 2021.
- ^ a b NGDC 1972.
Sources
- NGDC (1972), Significant Earthquake Database, 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, 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, S2CID 132516977
- von Hillebrandt-Andrade, Christa (2013), "Minimizing Caribbean Tsunami Risk", Science, 341 (6149): 966–968, 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