Anguilla

Earthquakes in Anguilla, 2017–2026

From 2017 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 17 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in or off Anguilla. None reached magnitude 6: the strongest was a magnitude 5.4 on January 24, 2021 (76 km E of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands).

The last 30 days · as of

USGS recorded no earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more in the area the map frames in the last 30 days.

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What the record holds

2022 had the most magnitude 4.5+ earthquakes: 5 of the 17.

The events

  • March 19, 2026Earthquake · M 5.292 km NE of The Valley, AnguillaUSGS
  • November 20, 2023Earthquake · M 4.982 km ENE of The Valley, AnguillaUSGS
  • June 17, 2022Earthquake · M 5.126 km NNE of The Valley, AnguillaUSGS
  • November 1, 2021Earthquake · M 5.0Leeward IslandsUSGS
  • January 24, 2021Earthquake · M 5.476 km E of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin IslandsUSGS

Good to know

  • An event counts for Anguilla when it began inside its borders, or at sea within 100 km of its coast (so one can count for two neighbours), or further out, up to 300 km, where Anguilla is the nearest country.
  • USGS counts are its ComCat catalogue’s earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more, aftershocks included.
  • 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.
  • The map frames the box around Anguilla, its neighbours’ quakes included, so its count runs higher than this page’s.
  • Counted to October 19, 2026, as is the map. The last 30 days ask USGS again.

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