June 3, 1769 Tsunami: Port-Au-Prince, Haiti
A tsunami probably caused by an earthquake began at Port-Au-Prince, Haiti on June 3, 1769.
Where the waves reached
The source of the tsunami. No runup with a place is recorded for it.
- Under 1 m
- 1 to 3 m
- 3 to 10 m
- 10 to 30 m
- 30 m and more
- Height not recorded
The tsunami
- Date
- June 3, 1769
- Source
- Port-Au-Prince, Haiti
- Cause
- Questionable earthquake
- Runups recorded
- 0
- Waters
- Ocean
- How certain
- Erroneous entry
- Source location
- 18.500° N, 72.300° W
The toll
The record gives no deaths, injuries or damage for this tsunami.
What the record says
NCEI’s account, from the sources it cites.
Berninghausen (Reference #43) mentions that an earthquake near Port-au-Prince caused a tsunami to inundate "the country to a distance of a league and a half from the coast." His reference is Mallet and Mallet (Reference #1879). It is very likely that this is an erroneous entry, and the report actually refers to June 3, 1770. Please refer to that event for more information.
More
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Sources
Tsunami events and runups 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 tsunami event 2748.