List of earthquakes in the Caribbean

For a list of earthquakes in Haiti, see List of earthquakes in Haiti.

Major earthquakes in the Caribbean are infrequent and are sometimes accompanied by tsunami.

Earthquakes

Date	Region	Mag.	MMI	Deaths	Injuries	Comments	Source
2025-02-08	Cayman Islands	7.6 Mw	V			Some damage	[1]
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
1993-01-13	Jamaica	5.5 Mw	VII	1		Some damage	[2]
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	[3]
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	[4]
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	[4]
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 and the Virgin Islands

References

1. ANSS. "M 7.6 - 209 km SSW of George Town, Cayman Islands 2025". Comprehensive Catalog. U.S. Geological Survey.
2. "M 5.5 – 3 km N of Easington, Jamaica". United States Geological Survey.
3. "M 7.7 – 45 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico" . Retrieved October 12, 2021.
4. NGDC 1972.

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