1780 Barbados Hurricane/Earthquake ?

[bubba]

The October 1780 Barbados Hurricane was one of the most vicious ever recorded. Wind speeds were calculated at over 200 MPH and the entire island was defoliated.

The bulk of the British Fleet was stationed in the Barbados and was destroyed but this Hurricane went on to destroy a large part of the British Fleet in other places in the Carribean ( Cuba, Martinique,Saint Lucia...). It was almost like a heat seeking missile. This Hurricane almost in one swoop ended British Naval dominance over the Atlantic.

In the Barbados during the worst of this Hurricane, there were reports of an earthquake. This claim seemed to be simply too outlandish. However, new scientific research published by a Florida State professor (Wenyan Fan) in the Journal of Geophysical Research Letters suggests otherwise. “ In areas offshore of Florida and in the Gulf of Mexico, deep shudders equivalent to 3.5 magnitude earthquakes were found to coincide with the ultimate in low pressure systems- hurricanes”. Perhaps that outlandish suggestion was true.

[Yunder Wækraus]

Wild!

[cm05]

Crazy. Same thing happened in Japan this year, the buildings were already swaying from the typhoon winds and the earthquake induced even more shaking.

The 2011 5.9 Virginia earthquake (felt it here in NY) struck a few days before Hurricane Irene, though that obviously isn’t the same thing, it was still very odd to have both occur within days of each other.