What the records say
- When
- 28 Jan 2020
- Kind
- Tsunami
- Coordinates
- 19.42° N, 78.76° W
- Houses destroyed
- 1
- Max water height m
- 0.11
- Source quake magnitude
- 7.7
- Runups
- 2
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
2020 Caribbean earthquake
Earthquake between Jamaica and Cuba
At 02:10 PM local time (UTC-5) on 28 January 2020, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7 Mw struck the north side of the Cayman Trough, north of Jamaica and west of the southern tip of Cuba, with the epicenter being 80 miles (130 km) east-southeast of Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands, and 83 miles (134 km) north of Montego Bay, Jamaica.
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The source
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
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