1684 Earthquake: Santo Domingo,azua, Dominican Republic
An earthquake struck Santo Domingo,azua, Dominican Republic in 1684.
Map
Where it struck, with the other significant earthquakes within 200 km. Circles are sized and colored by magnitude; select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Date
- 1684
- Place
- Santo Domingo,azua, Dominican Republic
- Intensity
- 10 on the Modified Mercalli scale
- Tsunami
- None recorded
- Epicenter
- 19.000° N, 71.000° W
- Country
- Dominican Republic
The toll
- Damage
- Severe (about $5 to $25 million)
Where the literature gives no number, NCEI records a description on a scale of 1 to 4, printed here in its words. Damage is in millions of US dollars of the year of the event, not adjusted for inflation.
What the record says
NCEI’s account, from the sources it cites.
Reference #124 states that Azua suffered serious damage. Acosta (1984) assigns it a MM Grade X intensity.
Other significant earthquakes nearby
Within 200 km, the deadliest first.
- January 12, 2010, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti
- May 7, 1842, Cap-Haitien
- August 8, 1946, Northeastern Coast, Dominican Republic
- May 9, 1673, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
- September 22, 2003, Puerto Plata, Santiago, Dominican Republic
- January 30, 1776, W, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic
- October 18, 1751, Azua DE Compostela, Dominican Republic
- 1783, Santiago DE Los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
- April 20, 1564, Concepcion DE LA Vega, Dominican Republic
- October 16, 2003, Moca, Santiago, Dominican Republic
- May 31, 1953, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
- 1691, Azua, Dominican Republic
- December 29, 1897, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
- April 12, 1793, Santo Domingo (St Domingue), Haiti
- March 1775, Unknown Location, Haiti
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Sources
Significant earthquakes from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Hazard Database, cited as NCEI/WDS, doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7. Public domain. Read 2026-09-24. NCEI earthquake 1097.