Major earthquakes in the Caribbean are infrequent and are sometimes accompanied by tsunami.
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List of earthquakes in Cuba
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List of earthquakes in the Dominican Republic
This is a list of earthquakes in the Dominican Republic
Earthquakes
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* List of earthquakes in Haiti
* List of earthquakes in Puerto Rico
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List of earthquakes in Haiti
Some of the earthquakes in Haiti have been very destructive to the country. The widespread damage and high-number of casualties of events in 2010 and 2021 can be partially blamed on the fact that most of the population in Haiti resides in struc ...
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List of earthquakes in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands lie at the boundary between the Caribbean and North American plates, making these territories prone to earthquakes. This is a highly active seismic region both surrounded and traversed by numerous fault lines; ...
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*Megan Torpey Zimmerman; Bingming Shen‐Tu; Khosrow Shabestari; Mehrdad Mahdyiar Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2022) 112 (2): 1120–1148. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120210157
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Caribbean
The Caribbean (, ) ( es, El Caribe; french: la Caraïbe; ht, Karayib; nl, De Caraïben) is a region of the Americas that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Se ...
Earthquakes
An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth resulting from a sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes can range in intensity, from ...