Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Historical disasters in Saint Vincent

Compiled by C.J. van Westen

Last update: February 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.

Table: Historical disaster events in Saint Vincent collected from different sources (NI = No Information).

day	month	Year	Events	Information available	Deaths	Affected	damage	landslides	floods
?	?	1718	Volcanic eruption Soufriere	Major explosive eruption. Unknown number of casualties
		1812	Volcanic eruption Soufriere	Major explosive eruption. Major damage to sugar industry	80
9	9	1874	Tropical Storm	Heavy Rain
1	1	1876	Tropical Storm	Heavy Rain for 2 days
16	8	1884	Tropical Storm	NI
15	8	1886	Tropical Storm	110mph from the ENE
30	7	1887	Tropical Storm	NI
11	9	1887	Tropical Storm	NI
6	9	1895	Tropical Storm	NI
15	9	1895	Tropical Storm	NI
28	10	1896	Tropical Storm	Heavy Rain
?	?	1897	Tropical Storm	Cyclone
11	9	1898	Hurricane	110mph from the ESE killing 100 people	100
8	5	1902	Earthquakes and volcanic activity Soufriere volcano	Major explosive eruption. !565 deaths. Considerable damage to sugar industry.	1565		US $ 200 Million
16	10	1916	Tropical Storm	Heavy Rain
8	9	1921	Hurricane	80mph from the S.E
		1928	Earthquake	NI
		1939	Earthquake	NI
		1946	Earthquake
		1953	Earthquake
5	10	1954	Hurricane Hazel	hits just south with 80mph winds from the east
23	9	1955	Hurricane Janet	levels the area with 115mph winds press 28.90	122			x
30	5	1957
5	7	1963	Storm	NI
24	9	1963	Hurricane Edith	NI
1	9	1962	Heavy rain	Heavy Rain
26	6	1962	Tropical Storm	NI
17	9	1967	Hurricane Behulah	18'' of rain in 12 hours	2		US $ 4.5 million
17	10	1971	Volcanic activity	Moderate explosive eruption	0	2000 10000 evacuated	40% decline in agricultural production
13	5	1974	Heavy rains	heavy Rains
2	10	1974	Tropical Storm	Heavy Rains
		1975	Drought in period 1970-1975
18	10	1977	Heavy Rains	Heavy Rains				x
19	10	1978	NI	NI
14	4	1979	Volcanic eruption Soufriere volcano	Moderate explosive eruption. No casualties. 20,000 evacuated	2	20000	Us $ 100 million
11	8	1980	Hurricane Allen	passes just north with 130mph winds on Aug 4th from the ESE	0	20500	US $ 16.3 million
1	5	1981	Tropical Storm	NI
8	9	1986	Tropical Storm Danielle	Landslides, damage to pipelines and hydropower projects				x
?	9	1987			0	1000	5000000	x
21	9	1987	Hurricane Emily	NI	0	208	5300000	x
?	11	1987	NI	NI
22	8	1988	Previous Heavy Rains	Heavy Rains
22	10	1988	Heavy Rains	Heavy Rains
28	9	1990	Heavy Rains	Heavy Rains
26	8	1991	Heavy Rains	NI
24	10	1991	Torrential Downpours	NI
21	9	1992	Heavy Rains	NI				x
29	11	1992	Flood		3
26	8	1995	Tropical Storm Iris	NI
8	9	1996	Incessant Rain	NI
		1997	Earthquake	NI
8	1	1998	Torrential rainfall	NI
17	11	1999	Hurricane Lenny	NI
29	11	2000	Torrential Downpours	NI
4	10	2001	Tropical Depression Iris	NI
24	9	2002	Tropical Storm	NI	4
8	9	2004	Hurricane Ivan	NI	0	1004	EC $ 5 million
24	11	2004	Tropical Storm	NI
14	7	2005	Tropical Storm	NI	0	530
		2008	Tropical Storm/ hurricane Omar	30 boats destroyed, damage along coastline	1		EC $ 5 million
		2009	Drought	NI
		2010	Drought	NI
29	10	2010	Hurricane Tomas	passes just north with 80mph winds. 28 % of population affected, of which 5% severe.	9	6100 1200 in shelters	EC $ 130 million (10.5% GDP)
8	1	2011	Landslide (17) and flood (21 reports)					17	21
8	2	2011	Landslide (13 reports) and flood (8)					13	8
8	3	2011	Landslide (2 reports)					2	0
13	3	2011	Flood (1 report)					0	1
28	3	2011	Flood (1 report)					0	1
5	4	2011	Flood					0	0
8	4	2011	Landslide & flood (2 reports)					1	1
11	4	2011	Tropical Storm , landslides	NI	0	275
13	4	2011	Landslide (5) and flood (39 reports)					5	39
14	4	2011	Landslides (7) and flood 39 reports)					7	32
16	4	2011	Landslide (2) and flood (32 reports)					2	15
18	4	2011	Landslide (3) and flood (4 reports)					3	4
19	4	2011	Landslide &flood (2 reports)					1	1
20	4	2011	Flood (1 report)					0	1
21	4	2011	Flood (2 reports)					0	2
23	4	2011	Flood (5 reports)					0	5
24	4	2011	Flood and landslide (2 reports)					1	1
28	4	2011	Flood					0	0
5	5	2011	Flood					0	0
16	6	2011	Landslide (2 reports)					2	0
1	7	2011	Landslide (1 report)					1	0
14	7	2011	Flood (1 report					0	1
16	8	2011	Flood (1 report)					0	1
22	8	2011	Landslide (1 report)					1	0
16	9	2011	Landslide and flood (2 reports)					1	1
17	9	2011	Landslide (1 reports)					1	0
1	10	2011	Landslides (2 reports)					2	0
25	10	2012	landslides	Boat bay, 3
25	12	2013	Tropical Storm, flooding, landslides	Heavy Rain 200 to 300 mm in two hours	12	17422 500 displaced	US $ 108.4 m Million EC $ 330 million	x	x
5	9	2013	flood					x
2	1	2014	Massive floods					x
2	5	2014	Drought
22	8	2014	Flood					x
12	9	2014	flood					x

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Historical disasters in Saint Vincent