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 | IX | 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 | IX | 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 | 0 | 2 | 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 | 8.1 Ms | IX | 2,550 | Destructive tsunami | ||
| 1943-07-29 | Puerto Rico | 7.7 Mw | VII | Moderate damage | [1] | ||
| 1918-10-11 | Puerto Rico | 7.1 Mw | IX | 76–116 | Destructive tsunami | ||
| 1907-01-14 | Jamaica | 6.5 Mw | 800–1,000 | Tsunami | |||
| 1867-11-18 | Virgin Islands | 7.5 Muk | X | 24 | Destructive tsunami | NGDC | |
| 1843-02-08 | Lesser Antilles | 8.3 Muk | IX | 4,000–6,000 | Extreme damage | NGDC | |
| 1839-01-11 | Martinique | 7.8 Muk | IX | 390–4,000 | Severe | NGDC | |
| 1787-05-02 | Puerto Rico | 8.0 Mw | |||||
| 1766-10-21 | Venezuela, Trinidad | 7.5 Ms | IX | Severe | NGDC | ||
| 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 | NGDC | |
| 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
References
- ^ "M 7.7 - 45 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico". Retrieved October 12, 2021.
Sources
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, doi:10.1785/0120200377
- 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
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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