What the records say
- When
- 14 Aug 2021
- Kind
- Tsunami
- Coordinates
- 18.41° N, 73.47° W
- Deaths
- 2248
- Injuries
- 12763
- Missing
- 329
- Damage musd
- 1600
- Houses destroyed
- 53815
- Source quake magnitude
- 7.2
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
2021 Haiti earthquake
7.2-magnitude earthquake in Tiburon Peninsula, Haiti
At 08:29:09 EDT on 14 August 2021, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck the Tiburon Peninsula of southern Haiti. It had a 10-kilometre-deep (6.2 mi) hypocenter near Petit-Trou-de-Nippes, approximately 150 kilometres (93 mi) west of the capital, Port-au-Prince. Tsunami warnings were briefly issued for the Haitian coast.
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The source
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
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