Historical disasters

Saint Lucia

Historical disasters in Saint Lucia
Compiled by: C.J. van Westen

Last updated: 09-02-2016

The preliminary results of the data collection on disaster events are presented in this section and all data are aggregated into a single table below. The data covers a long period starting in the 18th century. For many of the historical events it was possible to reconstruct the date of occurrence. The table also indicates for the various events whether there were indications of landslide occurrence, and if so whether the location of the landslides are known. Unfortunately this is not the case for most of the events. We believe that this catalogue is the most comprehensive that was made for the country until now, and hope it will be updated whenever new events occur. 

 

Year

Day

Events

Notes

Information available


1872


09-20/09/1872


Hurricane


NI


 


1875


08-18/09/1875


Hurricane


NI


 


1876


01/11/1876


Hurricane


NI


 


1879


09-16/10/1879


Tropical Storm


NI


 


1880


15-20-08/1880


Hurricane


NI


 


1886


15-27/08/1886


Hurricane


NI


 


1887


08/08/1887


Tropical Storm


NI


 


1887


11-22/09/1887


Hurricane


NI


 


1888


01-08/11/1888


Tropical Storm


NI


 


1891


18-25/08/1891


Hurricane


NI


 


1894


11-20/10/1894


Tropical Storm


Landslides and Flooding


 


1895


22-30/08/1895


Hurricane


NI


 


1896


11/09/1896


Tropical Storm


Landslides and Flooding


 


1898


05-20/09/1898


Hurricane


NI


 


1901


04-13/07/1901


Hurricane


NI


 


1903


06-16/08/1903


Hurricane


NI


 


1916


10-22/07/1916


Hurricane


NI


 


1916


12-20/08/1916


Hurricane


NI


 


1916


06-15/10/1916


Tropical Storm


NI


 


1917


20-30/09/1917


Hurricane


NI


 


1918


09-14/09/1918


Tropical Storm


NI


 


1921


10-9-1921


Tropical Storm


Landslides and Flooding


 


1924


16-18/08/1924


Hurricane


NI


 


1928


19-9-1928


Tropical Storm


Landslides and Flooding


 


1931


10-21/08/1931


Tropical Storm


NI


 


1938


21-11-1938


Tropical Storm


Landslides and Flooding


 


1938


22-11-1938


Tropical Storm


Landslides Ravine Crebiche and Flooding


 


1939


7-1-1939


Tropical Storm


Landslides Ravine Poisson and Flooding


 


1940


7-8-1940


Tropical Storm


Landslides and Flooding


 


1941


23-30/09/1941


Hurricane


NI


 


1942


21-31/08/1942


Hurricane


NI


 


1942


15-22/09/1942


Tropical Storm


NI


 


1943


11-18/10/1943


Hurricane


NI


 


1948


1-9-1948


Tropical Storm


NI


 


1949


3-9-1949


Tropical Storm


NI


 


1951


5-9-1951


Hurricane Dog


NI


 


1954


12-12-1954


Tropical Storm


Landslides Ravine Poisson and Flooding


 


1958


4-7-1958


Tropical Storm


Landslides and Flooding


 


1958


6-9-1958


Hurricane Ella


NI


 


1960


10-7-1960


Hurricane Abbey


NI


 


1963


24-9-1963


Hurricane Edith


NI


 


1965


27-9-1965


Hurricane Betsy


NI


 


1965


25-10-1965


Tropical Storm


Landslides and Flooding


 


1966


jun-66


Tropical Storm


Landslides and Flooding


 


1966


27-30/09/1966


Tropical Storm Judith


NI


 


1967


8-9-1967


Hurricane Beulah


NI


 


1967


26-9-1967


Tropical Storm Edith


NI


 


1969


25-27/07/1969


Tropical Depression


NI


 


1970


17-23/08/1970


Tropical Storm Dorothy


NI


 


1970


2-10-1970


Tropical Depression


Landslides and Flooding


 


1971


18-25/08/1971


Tropical Storm Chole


NI


 


1976


03-12/10/1976


Tropical Depression


NI


 


1979


19-24/06/1979


Tropical Storm Ana


NI


 


1980


3-8-1980


Hurricane Allen


Widespread landslides particular Barre de l'isle


 


1981


nov-81


Storm


Landslides


 


1983


23-7-1983


Storm


NI


 


1984


24-26/07/1984


Tropical Depression


NI


 


1988


11-9-1988


Tropical Storm Gilbert


Landslide


1985 map De GRaff


1990


6-11-1990


NI


Landslides More du Don


 


1992


29-11-1992


NI


Landslides


 


1993


14-17/08/1993


Tropical Storm Cindy


NI


 


1994


09-10/10/1994


Tropical Storm Debby


More than  400 Landslides shallow debris flow in the upper areas, debris and rock slides along roads


Mapped by Cassandra Rogers


1995


7-9-1995


Hurricane Iris


Landslides Millet Primary school,


 


1998


sep-98


Earthquake and incessant rain


Landslides Boguis


 


1999


7-10-1999


Seismic Event


soil creep and slow gravitational movement and Flooding


 


2001


14-22/08/2001


Tropical Storm Chantal


NI


 


2001


04-09/10/2001


Tropical Storm Jerry and Hurricane Iris


NI


 


2003


07-17/07/2003


Hurricane Claudette


NI


 


2004


03-14/08/2004


Tropical Storm Bonnie


NI


 


2004


26-9-2004


Seismic Event


Landslides Tapion


 


2005


1-7-2005


Heavy rainfall prior to the failure


Landslide Windjammer Landing Beach Resort


 


2007


13-23/08/2007


Hurricane Dean


NI


 


2010


30-31/10/2010


Hurricane Tomas


Many landsides Colombette, Fond St Jacques, along the Barre De L'ile, Millet and on the hills east and south of Castries


 


2013


24-12-2013


Christmas Eve trough


Several landslides along the roads


 

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