Earthquakes in Haiti, 1927–2026
From 1927 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 7 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more in or off Haiti. 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 in the area the map frames in the last 30 days.
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. 8 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 8 of the events here, 318,284 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 4.9 on June 6, 2023 (Haiti region). NOAA lists 2 tsunamis that began in or off Haiti. 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
- June 6, 2023Earthquake · M 4.9Haiti region · 4 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
- August 14, 2021Earthquake · M 7.2Nippes, Haiti · 2,248 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- October 7, 2018Earthquake · M 5.921 km WNW of Port-de-Paix, Haiti · 18 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
- April 20, 1962Earthquake · M 6.668 km NNE of Borgne, HaitiUSGS
- July 9, 1956Earthquake · M 6.25 km SE of Arcahaie, HaitiUSGS
- October 28, 1952Earthquake · M 6.212 km SE of Corail, Haiti · 6 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
Good to know
- An event counts for Haiti 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 Haiti 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 Haiti, 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.
How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Earthquakes, live, The world through history