Cap-Haïtien

Earthquakes near Cap-Haïtien through history

From 1900 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 4 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Cap-Haïtien, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. The strongest on either list was an estimated magnitude 8 on May 7, 1842 (Cap-Haitien).

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The last 30 days · as of

USGS recorded no earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more within 100 km of Cap-Haïtien in the last 30 days.

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What the record holds

The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 7 on January 12, 2010 (10 km SE of Léogâne, Haiti), for which NOAA records 316,000 deaths. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 9 here, back to 1770. NOAA records deaths in 5 of the events here, 321,522 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5.9 on October 7, 2018 (21 km WNW of Port-de-Paix, Haiti). NOAA’s record here begins on June 3, 1770 with an earthquake (Port-Au-Prince). 6 of the 9 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here came before 1927. NOAA lists 2 tsunamis that began within 100 km of Cap-Haïtien. The highest water NOAA records here was 5 m, on May 7, 1842. The deadliest, on May 7, 1842, killed 300 people here by NOAA’s runup records.

The events

  • October 7, 2018Earthquake · M 5.921 km WNW of Port-de-Paix, Haiti · 18 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • January 12, 2010Earthquake · M 7.010 km SE of Léogâne, Haiti · 316,000 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • May 7, 1842Earthquake · M 8.0 (est.)Cap-Haitien · 5,300 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • May 7, 1842Tsunami · 5 m hereCap-Haitian · 300 deaths here (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • June 3, 1770Earthquake · M 7.5 (est.)Port-Au-Prince · 200 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia

Good to know

  • An event counts for Cap-Haïtien when it began within 100 km of its centre, or 200 km for an earthquake of magnitude 7 or more. Damage can reach further.
  • USGS counts here start at magnitude 6: the catalogue’s smaller quakes thin out going back, where few instruments listened.
  • NOAA lists significant events only: earthquakes that killed, did about $1 million of damage, reached magnitude 7.5 or intensity X, or raised a tsunami, and eruptions and tsunamis by like measures. Magnitudes before 1900 are its estimates from written accounts.
  • Deaths are NOAA’s total for each event, wherever people died, its tsunami and fires included. A tsunami counts the dead its runup records give for this place: NOAA’s total for a tsunami includes its source quake’s.
  • A tsunami from elsewhere counts where one of its runups killed or rose a metre or more.
  • Counted to October 19, 2026, as is the map. The last 30 days ask USGS again.

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