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Major earthquakes in the Caribbean are infrequent and are sometimes accompanied by tsunami. ... Trinidad and Tobago: 6.7 M w: VII 2 Damage 1993-01-13 Jamaica:
1766 Southeastern Caribbean earthquake. / 11.0; -62.5. Venezuela and Trinidad were struck by a major earthquake on 21 October 1766 at 4:30 in the morning local time in Cumaná, Venezuela (4:45 local time in Trinidad). It caused widespread damage from Caracas in the west to Georgetown, Guyana in the east.
The Caribbean Plate is a mostly oceanic tectonic plate underlying Central America and the Caribbean Sea off the northern coast of South America . Roughly 3.2 million square kilometres (1.2 million square miles) in area, the Caribbean Plate borders the North American Plate, the South American Plate, the Nazca Plate and the Cocos Plate.
The University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre ( UWI-SRC) is a centre for volcanological, seismic and geophysical research in Trinidad, which has the responsibility for monitoring and studying earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis across the Eastern Caribbean. Part of the University of the West Indies, it is also responsible for ...
Earthquakes Fault system in the vicinity of the 12 January 2010 quake; epicenter is the red circle. A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck southeastern coast of Jamaica in 1692, almost destroying Port Royal; An earthquake struck along the southern coast of Hispaniola in 1751. A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince in 1770.
1907 Jamaica earthquake. / 18.2; -76.7. The 1907 Kingston earthquake which shook the capital of the island of Jamaica with a magnitude of 6.2 [1] on the moment magnitude scale on Monday January 14, at about 3:30 p.m. local time (20:36 UTC ), is described by the United States Geological Survey as one of the world's deadliest earthquakes recorded ...
2020 Caribbean earthquake. / 19.419; -78.756. At 2:10 p.m. local time ( UTC-5) on 28 January 2020, an earthquake of 7.7 Mw struck on the north side of the Cayman Trough, north of Jamaica and west of the southern tip of Cuba, with the epicenter being 80 miles (130 km) ESE of Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands [4] or 83 miles (134 km) north of Montego ...
The largest known earthquake on the plate interface was a M7.5–8.0 event in 1843, but it did not generate a large tsunami. In opposition, the three largest events between 1950 and 1978 were intraplate normal faulting events. See also. Lesser Antilles; List of earthquakes in 1974; List of earthquakes in the Caribbean; References