Scrub Island lagoon (Anguilla, Caribbean) provides the opportunity to display both tropical cyclones, near-field and far-field tsunami deposits within the same sediment core. Here, we use X-ray tomography to highlight the sedimentary fabric and link it to processes that occurred during these events. Overall, the tsunami sedimentary fabric remains highly homogenous, and display fabric trends that can be associated with variations in sediment concentration and/or flow strength. The near-field tsunami deposit displays fabric characteristics of intense and highly-concentrated flow, whereas the far-field tsunami fabric is less defined which may illustrate a less intense event. Contrastingly, the sediment fabric of the tropical cyclone (hurricane) deposit is more variable with a succession of different dipping-angles and orientations of the grains that can be interpreted as the record of successive waves, likely infragravity waves. Observed differences in sedimentary fabrics between tsunami and tropical cyclone-related deposits are an encouragement to generalize sediment fabric parameters as criteria to distinguish them in coastal sedimentary archives.