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PAST NOTABLE DISASTERS IN THE CARIBBEAN BASIN. 1963 TO THE PRESENT. Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, University of North Carolina, USA. HURRICANE FLORA: 1963. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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PAST NOTABLE DISASTERS IN THE CARIBBEAN BASIN
1963 TO THE PRESENT
Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, University of
North Carolina, USA
HURRICANE FLORA: 1963
• More than 8,000 people were killed as the fifth-deadliest tropical hurricane ever in the Atlantic devastated Haiti and Cuba.
HURRICANE FLORA: SEPT 26 - OCT 12, 1963
HURRICANE GORDON: 1994
•Nearly 1,000 Haitians were buried in mudslides caused by heavy rainfall in areas having wide-spread deforestation
HURRICANE GEORGES: 1998
• 400 victims
• 80 percent of the crops were destroyed.
HURRICANE JEANNE: 2004
• Floods caused by more than (40 cm) 13 inches of rain kill more than 3,000 people, mainly in Gonaives.
FAY, HANNA, GUSTAV, IKE: 2008
• 793 people died, 310 were missing and 593 were injured in successive strikes.
• Nearly 23,000 homes were destroyed.
• The storms affected 800,000 Haitians and wiped out 70 percent of the country's crops.
• Damage was estimated at $1 billion, 5 percent of Haiti's GDP.
EARTHQUAKE NEAR JAMAICA: JUNE 7, 1692
• Magnitude uncertain
• 2,000 deaths
EARTHQUAKE NEAR PUERTO RICO: MAY 2, 1787
• Magnitude 8
EARTHQUAKE NEAR LEEWARD ISLANDS: FEB 8, 1843
•Magnitude 8.3
• 5,000 deaths
EARTHQUAKE NEAR KINGSTON, JAIMACA: JAN 14, 1907
•Magnitude 6.5
• 1,000 deaths
EARTHQUAKE NEAR SAMAN, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: AUG 4, 1907
•Magnitude 8
• 100 deaths
EARTHQUAKE NEAR GUADELOUPE, LEEWARD ISLANDS: DEC 25, 1969
•Magnitude 7.2
EARTHQUAKE NEAR LEEWARD ISLANDS: OCT 8, 1974
•Magnitude 7.5
EARTHQUAKE: NEAR MARTINIQUE, WINDWARD ISLANDS: NOV 29, 2007
•Magnitude 7.4
EARTHQUAKE: NEAR PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI; JAN 12, 2007
•Magnitude 7.0
•A catastrophe with an estimated 220,000 deaths and over $1 billion economic loss.
THE HAITI EARTHQUAKE AND THE CARIBBEAN PLATE