Earthquakes near Santa Cruz de Tenerife through history

NOAA records no deaths for any of them. The latest on NOAA’s list is an earthquake on March 20, 1810 (Tenerife). NOAA’s record here begins on May 5, 1706 with a tsunami (Tenerife, Canary Islands). NOAA lists 3 tsunamis that began within 100 km of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and one from elsewhere that reached it with deaths or a metre of water or more. The highest water NOAA records here was 5 m, on November 1, 1755. NOAA lists one significant eruption of one volcano within 100 km of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The largest was Tenerife on May 5, 1706, at 2 on the volcanic explosivity index.

• March 20, 1810EarthquakeTenerifeNOAA NCEI
• 1800EarthquakePenon De La GomeraNOAA NCEI
• November 1, 1755Tsunami · 5 m hereLisbonNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• May 5, 1706TsunamiTenerife, Canary IslandsNOAA NCEI
• May 5, 1706Eruption · VEI 2TenerifeNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia

• An event counts for Santa Cruz de Tenerife 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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