Earthquakes near Guarenas through history

The one on March 26, 1812 was the deadliest: NOAA records 26,000 deaths for it. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 10 here, back to 1641. NOAA records deaths in 5 of the events here, 26,925 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 6.6 on July 30, 1967. NOAA’s record here begins on June 11, 1641 with an earthquake (Caracas,La Guaira,Cua). NOAA lists 3 tsunamis that began within 100 km of Guarenas. The highest water NOAA records here was 10 m, on October 29, 1900.

• July 30, 1967Earthquake · M 6.6300 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• October 29, 1900Earthquake · M 7.7Near the coast of Venezuela · 25 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• October 29, 1900Tsunami · 10 m hereMancutoNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• March 26, 1812Earthquake · M 7.7 (est.)La Guaira · 26,000 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• June 11, 1641EarthquakeCaracas,La Guaira,Cua · 200 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia

• An event counts for Guarenas 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.

How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Earthquakes, live, The world through history