Antigua & Barbuda

Earthquakes in Antigua & Barbuda, 2017–2026

From 2017 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 41 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in or off Antigua & Barbuda. The strongest was a magnitude 6.6 on July 10, 2023 (278 km NNE of Codrington, Antigua and Barbuda).

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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The events

  • May 16, 2026Earthquake · M 6.061 km ESE of Codrington, Antigua and BarbudaUSGS
  • December 2, 2023Earthquake · M 5.338 km NE of Anse-Bertrand, GuadeloupeUSGS
  • July 10, 2023Earthquake · M 6.6278 km NNE of Codrington, Antigua and BarbudaUSGS
  • February 9, 2018Earthquake · M 5.2111 km N of Codrington, Antigua and BarbudaUSGS
  • April 17, 2017Earthquake · M 5.676 km ESE of Codrington, Antigua and BarbudaUSGS

Good to know

  • An event counts for Antigua & Barbuda 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 Antigua & Barbuda 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 Antigua & Barbuda, 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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