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GEO HAITI • 2010 138 Table 30: Historical Balance Sheet of Floods in Haiti Date Place Damages November 14, 1963 Grande Rivière du Nord Almost 500 victims May 20, 1972 Cayes Region 20 missing and considerable physical losses June 10, 1984 Port-de-Paix June 1, 1986 Cayes Region 20,000 hectares affected, several thousand homes damaged October 23, 1986 Gonâve Island 31 dead, 906 homeless, over 380 homes destroyed or damaged April 27, 1987 Port-de-Paix 131 families affected May 8, 1987 Thiotte in the Southeast, Delmas and Caradeux in Port-au-Prince Thiotte: 3 killed and hundreds homeless. Areas of Delmas and Caradeux in Portau-Prince: 21 families affected January 27, 1988 Northwest According to the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO), over 15 lives were lost and thousands of persons lost their homes, farms and livestock June 20, 1988 Estere in Artibonite 500 families affected October 8, 1988 Leogane Plain 40 families affected February 23, 1989 Gonâve Island 4,945 families affected, 1,527 homes destroyed and 1,640 damaged. May 24-27, 2002 May 23-24, 2004 October 4, 2005 October 25, 2005 South Peninsula, town of Camp Perrin and areas of Azile and Anse-à-Veau were the most affected. Southeast Haiti, Mapou Belle-Anse, Bodary and Fonds-Verrettes. Various regions including Petion-Ville and Grand Goave in the West Province. Several regions in the Northwest including the communities of Port-de-Paix, Bassin-Bleu, Anse-à-Foleur and Saint-Louis du Nord. 31 dead, 14 missing and over 7,000 victims in the South Province according to the Office of Civil Defence, as quoted by Haiti-Press Network, June 5, 2002 1,232 dead, 1,443 missing and 31,130 victims according to the latest figures published by Haitian civil defence on June 8, 2004. The hardest hit areas are: Mapou Belle-Anse with 432 people dead, Bodary with 350 people dead and Fonds-Verrettes with 237 people dead. All three areas are located in the Southeast Province. The tragedy of this disaster compelled the Boniface/Latortue interim government to proclaim May 28 a national day of mourning. The floods caused significant losses. The government provided no figures on this disaster. Floods caused by torrential rains in several Northwestern regions. Livestock and crops were swept away and one person was killed.
State of the Environment Report 2010 November 22 and 23, 2006 Date Place Damages March 17, 2007 May 8-9, 2007 September 1, 2008 October 20, 2009 Grand Anse, Nippes and Northwest Provinces. Grand Anse: Jeremie, Abricots, Bonbon, Carcasse (Les Irois). Southeast: Jacmel. West: Cite Soleil, Delmas, Port-au- Prince (Carrefour-Feuilles, Canapé Vert). Northwest: Port-de-Paix, Saint-Louis du Nord, Anse-à-Foleur. North: Cap-Haitien Northeast: Ferrier, Ouanaminthe. North, Northwest and South Provinces. The city of Gonaives, several towns in Jacmel, and many towns in the Northeast, South and Southeast were flooded. Heavy rains in Port-au-Prince and its outlying areas. Heavy rains triggered flooding in the Grand’Anse, Nippes and Northwest Provinces. Several public buildings were flooded and some road structures damaged including the bridge at Ravine Sable (Bonbon Community) which collapsed. 8 people dead and some 360 families seriously affected Torrential rains brought significant damage to several regions of the country. The town of Ouanaminthe was particularly hardhit and the bridge connecting Haiti (from Ouanaminthe) to the Dominican Republic (Dajabon) was severely damaged. Heavy rains caused by Tropical Storm Hanna triggered major flooding in Gonaives, in the west of Haiti, where thousands of persons had perished under similar circumstances 4 years ago. “The city is under 2 metres of water in some places”, said the Director of Civil Defence, “since yesterday evening a number of persons have had to seek refuge on rooftops to escape the rising waters.” On Tuesday morning, official figures mentioned one death. The community of Carrefour in a suburb, south of the capital, was completely flooded. 139 Source: http://www.haiti-reference.com/geographie/milieu/desastres.html In Haiti, earthquakes occur less often than floods. However, earthquakes have already struck the country’s major cities (Table 31) causing significant damage. The city of Port-au-Prince has a very high earthquake risk due to a large fault which extends under the mountain Morne-del’Hopital, overlooking the city. This risk, of course, became a reality last January 12th, 2010, as we all know too well.
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