Saint-Marc

Earthquakes near Saint-Marc, 1927–2026

From 1927 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 4 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Saint-Marc, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. The strongest was a magnitude 7.2 on August 14, 2021 (Nippes, Haiti).

The last 30 days · as of

USGS recorded no earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more within 100 km of Saint-Marc 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. 4 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 4 of the events here, 318,254 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5.3 on January 24, 2022 (4 km S of Anse-à-Veau, Haiti). NOAA lists one tsunami that began within 100 km of Saint-Marc. The highest water NOAA records here was 3.21 m, on January 12, 2010. The deadliest, on January 12, 2010, killed 3 people here by NOAA’s runup records.

The events

  • January 24, 2022Earthquake · M 5.34 km S of Anse-à-Veau, Haiti · 2 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
  • August 14, 2021Earthquake · M 7.2Nippes, Haiti · 2,248 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
  • January 12, 2010Tsunami · 3.21 m hereHaiti & Dominican Republic · 3 deaths here (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia

Good to know

  • An event counts for Saint-Marc 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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