Guadeloupe earthquakes

M5.9 earthquake 114 km NE of Beauséjour, Guadeloupe

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck 114 km NE of Beauséjour, Guadeloupe on Fri, May 16, 2014, 7:01 AM AST (11:01 UTC), 5 km (3 mi) below the surface.

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The earthquake

Magnitude: 5.9 (Mww, W-phase moment), moderate
Magnitude from: USGS National Earthquake Information Center
Local time: Fri, May 16, 2014, 7:01 AM AST
UTC: 2014-05-16 11:01:40 UTC
Depth: 5.3 km (3.3 mi), shallow
Epicenter: 17.086° N, 60.365° W
Region: Guadeloupe
Felt reports: 12
Strongest shaking: IV, light shaking
PAGER alert: Green
Tsunami flag: Yes: a large quake in an oceanic region
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

Magnitude estimates

Different scales measure different things and differ by a few tenths. The USGS marks one as preferred, and it is the one this page uses.

Mag.	Scale	Computed by	Notes
5.9	Mww, W-phase moment	USGS National Earthquake Information Center	Preferred · Reviewed
5.87	Mw, moment	ISC-GEM global catalog	Final · ±0.1
6.0	Mi	NOAA National Tsunami Warning Center	Reviewed · 20 stations
6.0	Mi	NOAA Pacific Tsunami Warning Center	Reviewed · 18 stations
5.9	Mwc, centroid moment	USGS National Earthquake Information Center	Moment tensor · Reviewed
5.9	Mwb, body-wave moment	USGS National Earthquake Information Center	Moment tensor · Reviewed

Tsunami

The USGS flags a quake this large in an oceanic region. The flag does not mean a tsunami happened; the tsunami warning centers decide that, and their messages are below when they issued any.

Current tsunami warnings: tsunami.gov. Warnings in force in the US also appear on our alerts pages.

Shaking

The USGS ShakeMap: shaking estimated from seismic stations and the quake’s size, on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale.

Strongest estimated: IV, light shaking
Map: Automatic

USGS ShakeMap: estimated shaking intensity around the epicenter — Estimated shaking intensity. Map: USGS ShakeMap.

Did you feel it?

12 people reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was III, weak shaking.

Estimated impact

The USGS PAGER system estimates deaths and economic losses from the shaking and the population and buildings exposed to it.

Alert level: Green: little or no damage or loss of life expected

Fault motion and ground failure

How the rock slipped, from the moment tensor, and the USGS estimate of landslides and liquefaction.

Faulting: Normal
Moment magnitude: 5.9 Mww
Nodal plane 1: Strike 174°, dip 73°, rake -61°
Nodal plane 2: Strike 294°, dip 33°, rake -146°

How well it is located

Reviewed by a seismologist.

Depth from: FROM_LOCATION
Station coverage gap: 27°
Stations used: 242

Nearest places

Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.

Le Moule, GuadeloupePopulation 22,692. Forecast134 kmNE

Nearby

Within 100 km, magnitude 2.9 and up: 11 in the 60 days after this one and 0 in the 30 days before it.

After

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Sources

From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event usb000qqlq (also filed as pt14136000, at00n5nymx, iscgem604587831). Read Sat, Oct 3, 2026, 1:36 PM UTC.