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At 02:10 PM local time on 28 January 2020, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7 M w struck 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) east-southeast of Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands, [4] and 83 miles (134 km) north of Montego Bay, Jamaica. [5]
1679 Cuba earthquake: 1679-02-11: Santiago de Cuba [7] 1682 Cuba earthquake: 1682: Santiago de Cuba [7] 5.8 VII 30 km Magnitude estimated at 5.8 M L on the Richter scale, intensity at VII EMS-98. [1] 1693 Cuba earthquake: July 1693: Havana [8] "1,500 houses thrown down" 1757 Cuba earthquake: 1757-12-14: Santiago de Cuba [9]
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This is a list of earthquakes in 2024. ... Cuba, Granma offshore, 20 km (12 mi) southwest of Pilón: 4.2 10.0 - Aftershock of the 6.8 event on November 10. Several ...
The Gonâve microplate, showing location of the main fault zones. The Septentrional–Orient fault zone (SOFZ) is a system of active coaxial left lateral-moving strike slip faults that runs along the northern side of the island of Hispaniola where Haiti and the Dominican Republic are located and continues along the south of Cuba along the northern margin of the Cayman Trough.
A 7.7 magnitude earthquake caused a small tsunami to wash ashore on South Pacific islands Friday. Waves 60 centimeters (2 feet) above tide level were measured off Lenakel, a port town in Vanuatu ...
Cuba is located in an area with several active fault systems which produce on average about 2,000 seismic events each year. [5] While most registered seismic events pass unnoticed, the island has been struck by a number of destructive earthquakes over the past four centuries, including several major quakes with a magnitude of 7.0 or above.
A pie chart comparing the seismic moment release of the three largest earthquakes for the hundred-year period from 1906 to 2005 with that for all earthquakes of magnitudes <6, 6 to 7, 7 to 8, and >8 for the same period. The 2011 Japan quake would be roughly similar to Sumatra. Earthquakes of magnitude 8.0 and greater from 1900 to 2018.