What the records say
- When
- 10 Jan 2018
- Kind
- Tsunami
- Coordinates
- 17.48° N, 83.52° W
- Max water height m
- 0.4
- Source quake magnitude
- 7.5
- Runups
- 8
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
2018 Swan Islands earthquake
On 9 January 2018, at approximately 8:51 p.m. local time, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck in the Yucatán Basin of the Caribbean Sea, 44 kilometres (27 mi) east of Great Swan Island off the coast of Honduras. The earthquake was felt across Central America, and rattled windows in Tegucigalpa. The earthquake was also felt in the Cayman Islands.
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The source
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
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