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Districts of Haiti Map of Haiti. 1691. Earthquake [2] 1751. 3 June: Earthquake at Port-au-Prince and areas to the south. The city and towns were destroyed. [3] [4] 1816. 18–19 November: [5] a cyclone caused considerable damage in the countryside of Ouest department and in the Gulf of Gonâve. 1842. 7 May: Earthquake at Cap-Haïtien and ...
Five of Haiti's ten departments were affected: Ouest, Nippes, Sud-Est, Nord-Ouest, and Centre. [4] Damage was particularly severe around the capital city of Port-au-Prince . [ 5 ] As of 6 June, 51 people were confirmed dead, 140 were injured, and 18 remained missing.
Flooding often occurs in Haiti's most populous cities, which are located in valleys along the coast. Large amounts of rain, barren hills resulting from deforestation, and poor drainage infrastructure leave Haiti especially susceptible to flooding after tropical storms. [1]
A flood in 1958 covered 195,000 ha (480,000 acres) and one in 1969 covered 340,000 ha (840,000 acres). Meanwhile, the drainage capacity of the Papaloapan river was being reduced by silt carried by the Santo Domingo river. Construction of the Cerro de Oro Dam in 1989 on the Santo Domingo river reduced the extent of floods to a manageable level. [5]
On February 1, five people were killed by the floods, with one more person missing. [1] [2] [3] On March 7, a storm hit the Puerto Plata province of the Dominican Republic and the Nord Department of Haiti, leaving 2 Haitians dead. [citation needed] On September 1, a flood destroyed upwards of 350 homes and killed 3 in the Ouest Department ...
This is a list of rivers of Haiti, arranged by drainage basin, ... Atlantic Ocean. Dajabón River (Massacre River) Grande Rivière du Nord; Rivière du Limbè ...
The Spring River channel overflowed causing what the National Weather Service in Albuquerque described as "extreme flooding" in downtown Roswell and throughout the southeastern New Mexico town of ...
The Southeastern Mexico floods of 2020 were a series of floods that began in October 2020 and affected the region Southeast Mexico, especially Chiapas, Tabasco, Veracruz and other states. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] At least 28 people died and more than 368,000 were affected as of November 14. [ 3 ]