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1766 Southeastern Caribbean earthquake. 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. Despite the significant damage caused, there are no ...
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:
Large historical earthquakes in 1839 and 1843 in this region are possibly megathrust earthquakes. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Along the geologically complex southern boundary, [ 5 ] the Caribbean Plate interacts with the South American Plate forming Barbados , Trinidad and Tobago (all on the Caribbean Plate), and islands off the coast of Venezuela (including ...
Official website. 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 ...
2007 Martinique earthquake. The 2007 Martinique earthquake took place on November 29 2007 at 15:00:19 local time in the Windward Islands region, underneath the Martinique Passage. It was a magnitude 7.4 earthquake that occurred 18 km (11 mi) west northwest from Basse-Pointe, Martinique. [2]
On August 21, 2018 a magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck just off the northern coast of Venezuela, near Cariaco, Sucre. [1] The earthquake is thought to be the largest in the country since the 1900 San Narciso earthquake. [2] It prompted evacuations in Caracas, and caused shaking in Colombia, Guyana, Brazil, [3][4] Grenada, Dominica, Barbados, St ...
The 1907 Kingston earthquake which shook the capital of the island of Jamaica with a magnitude of 6.2 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 in history. [2]
"It started shaking and I said, 'Oh, my God, it's an earthquake,'" said Patty Rivera, center, a barista at Emil's Bake House in Agoura Hills, about five miles from the epicenter of Thursday's quake.