Dominica

Earthquakes in Dominica, 1927–2026

From 1927 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 5 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more in or off Dominica. One stands far above the rest: a magnitude 7.4 on November 29, 2007 (18 km WNW of Basse-Pointe, Martinique). The next strongest reached 6.4.

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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

It was also the deadliest: NOAA records one death for it. 3 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 2 of the events here, 2 in all. NOAA lists 2 tsunamis that began in or off Dominica. The highest of them reached 2 m, on November 21, 2004.

The events

  • January 20, 2023Earthquake · M 6.140 km WSW of Pointe-Noire, GuadeloupeUSGS
  • November 29, 2007Earthquake · M 7.418 km WNW of Basse-Pointe, Martinique · one death (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • November 21, 2004Earthquake · M 6.320 km SSW of Petites Anses, Guadeloupe · one death (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • November 21, 2004Tsunami · 2 m highBasse-Terre, Les SaintesNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • January 8, 1959Earthquake · M 6.418 km SSE of Berekua, DominicaUSGS
  • May 21, 1946Earthquake · M 6.345 km NE of Le Vauclin, MartiniqueUSGS

Good to know

  • An event counts for Dominica 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 Dominica is the nearest country.
  • 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.
  • The map frames the box around Dominica, 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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