List of natural disasters in Haiti - wikipedia List of natural disasters in Haiti Throughout its history, Haiti has suffered cyclones, hurricanes, tropical storms, torrential rains, floods and earthquakes. The hurricane season in Haiti lasts from June to the end of November. The following is a non-exhaustive list of natural disasters which have struck Haiti. Disasters Districts of Map of Haiti 1564 Earthquake 1684 Earthquake 1691 1751 3 June : Earthquake at Port - au - Prince and areas to the south. The city and towns were destroyed.. 1816 18 -- 19 November : 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 throughout the north. The town of Cap - Haïtien was destroyed along with the towns of Port - de-Paix, Gonaïves, and Fort - Liberté, and many towns in the Dominican Republic were affected. 1887 23 September : Earthquake in the western region of Haiti. 1904 Earthquake in the north of the country. Port - de-Paix and Cap - Haïtien were severely affected. 1909 12 November : cyclone in Ouest département. Around 150 victims were counted in plaine du Cul de Sac alone. 1915 12 August : cyclone on the southern peninsula, which devastated Jacmel and Jérémie. 1935 21 October : hurricane in Sud and Sud - Est départements. 2,000 people perished. 1946 Earthquake in the northeast Dominican Republic accompanied by a tsunami in the region of Nagua. Haiti was also affected. 1952 27 October : earthquake at Anse - à - Veau in Grand'Anse killed 6 and rendered thousands homeless. 1954 11 -- 12 October : Hurricane Hazel affected every part of Haiti. At more than 249 km / h, the hurricane devastated the country, killing several thousand people. 1963 3 October : Hurricane Flora struck the Sud and Ouest départements, causing over 5,000 deaths. 14 November : flooding of the Grande Rivière du Nord killed almost 500 people. 1964 24 August : Hurricane Cleo hit the south coast, especially the Cayes - Jacmel region, causing 192 deaths. 1966 29 September : Hurricane Inez devastated, at more than 170 km / h, the Sud and Ouest départements Earthquake 1976 6 January : 8.6 Earthquake at Port - au - Prince. The city was affected. USGS has not recorded the event. Before the earthquake in the area of the epicenter, light cones and bright round balls that were flying appeared in the night sky according to the testimonies. 20 May : Floods in the Cayes - Jacmel region. 20 people lost presumed dead, considerable property damage. 1980 5 August : Hurricane Allen, at more than 270 km / h, struck the south coast, especially the Cayes - Jacmel region, causing approximately 200 deaths. Atlantic hurricane season 1984 10 June : floods at Port - de-Paix. 1986 1 June : Floods in the Cayes - Jacmel region. 20,000 hectares of land were flooded and several thousand homes damaged. 23 October : flooding at Ile de la Gonâve. 31 killed, 906 homeless, more than 380 houses destroyed or damaged. 27 April : flooding at Port - de-Paix. 8 May : flooding at Thiotte in Sud - Est département and in the Delmas and Caradeux neighbourhoods of Port - au - Prince. 1988 27 January : flooding in the Nord - Ouest département. 20 June : flooding in L'Estère in the Artibonite département. 11 September : Hurricane Gilbert devastated the south coast, particularly the Anse - à - Veau, Camp - Perrin, Cavaillon, Cayes, Île à Vache, Jacmel, Jérémie, Kenscoff and Port - Salut regions. 8 October : flooding in the Plaine de Léogâne. 1989 23 February : flooding in Île de la Gonâve. 4,945 familles affected, 1,527 houses destroyed and 1640 damaged. 1994 12 and 13 November : Hurricane Gordon crossed Sud - Est département and the southern peninsula, causing flooding and approximately 2,000 deaths and disappearances. 1998 23 September : Hurricane Georges devastated the Sud - Est and Nord - Ouest départements, causing 147 deaths, 34 serious injuries, 40 disappearances, and 167,500 displaced. 2002 24 -- 27 May : Flooding on the southern peninsula. The town of Camp Perrin and the settlements of L'Asile and Anse - à - Veau were worst affected by the tropical storms. 31 dead, 14 disappeared and more than 7,000 displaced in the dans le Sud département. 23 -- 24 May : Torrential rains which pounded the south - east of Haiti during the night caused 1,232 deaths, 1,443 disappearances and 31,130 displaced persons. Mapou Belle - Anse with 432 dead, Bodary with 350 dead and Fonds - Verrettes with 237 victims, all located in Sud - Est département, were the places most badly hit. The gravity of this situation led the interim government of Boniface and Latortue to declare Friday 28 May a day of national mourning. 10 September : Hurricane Ivan struck the southern peninsula and west coast, causing serious damage in several areas due to flooding. 18 -- 19 September : Hurricane Jeanne crossed the western section of Haiti and the Artibonite, causing flooding which killed 1,870. In addition : 2,620 injured, 846 disappeared and 300,000 displaced. With more than 3,000 dead, Gonaïves was the most seriously affected city. Hurricane Dennis, 10 July 2005 at 16 : 15 UTC. 2005 6 and 7 July : Hurricane Dennis touched the south - east coast of Haiti, causing flooding in several towns in Sud ( Bainet, Grand - Goâve, Les Cayes... ) and leaving more than 500 homeless. 4 October : Floods in several parts of the country, including Pétion - Ville and Grand - Goâve in Ouest département, where the high water caused considerable loss of property. The government did not make a final accounting of this catastrophe. 17 -- 18 October : Hurricane Wilma struck the west and south of Haiti. 23 October : Tropical Storm Alpha crossed the south peninsula, affecting the départements of Grand'Anse and Nippes. 25 October : Flooding caused by torrential rain hit many parts of the Nord - Ouest département, particularly the settlements of Port - de-Paix, Bassin - Bleu, Anse - à - Foleur and Saint - Louis du Nord. 2006 22 and 23 November : heavy rain caused flooding in Grand'Anse, Nippes and Nord - Ouest départements, causing damage to roadways including the collapse of a bridge across Ravine Sable at Trou - Bonbon. 2007 17 March : floods caused by rain and storms hit a large part of Haiti for over a week. Six départements were particularly affected : Grand'Anse : Jérémie, Abricots, Bonbon, Les Irois Sud - Est : Jacmel Ouest : Cité Soleil, Delmas, Port - au - Prince ( Carrefour - Feuilles, Canapé Vert ) Nord - Ouest : Port - de-Paix, Saint - Louis du Nord, Anse - à - Foleur Nord : Cap - Haïtien Nord - Est : Ferrier, Ouanaminthe. 8 -- 9 May : torrential rain, causing considerable damage in several regions of the country, in particular in the Nord, Nord - Est and Sud départements. The town of Ouanaminthe was particularly hard hit and the bridge between Ouanaminthe and Dajabón which links Haiti to the Dominican Republic was severely damaged. Trajectory of Hurricane Hanna in 2008, prior to its extra-tropical transition 2008 16 August : Tropical Storm Fay crossed the entire country. 26 August : Hurricane Gustav crosses the south peninsula, including the Sud and Grand'Anse départements, causing approximately 77 deaths and 8 disappearances, together with serious destruction of property. 15,000 families were affected by the storm, which destroyed 3,000 houses and damaged 11,458. 1 September : Hurricane Hanna ravaged the Artibonite and Nord - Est départements. Several towns were flooded, including Gonaïves. One death was officially confirmed. In addition to Gonaïves, several towns in Jacmel, Nord - Est, Sud and Sud - Est were flooded... 6 September : Hurricane Ike, a category 4 hurricane, grazed the western coastline of Haiti, leading to heavy rain in Nord, Ouest and Nord - Ouest départements. 2009 20 October : heavy rain in the Haitian capital and its suburbs. Carrefour, in the southern suburbs, was completely flooded. 12 January : the magnitude 7.0 2010 Haiti earthquake which occurred on 12 at 16 : 53, local time. The earthquake killed between 46,000 and 316,000 people. Its epicentre was at approximately 25 km from Port - au - Prince, the capital. A dozen secondary shocks of magnitudes ranging from 5.0 to 5.9 were registered during the hours which followed. 20 January : A second earthquake of magnitude 6.1 occurred on 20 January 2010 at 06 : 03 local time. Its epicentre was at approximately 59 km west of Port - au - Prince, and at least 10 km beneath the surface. 20 October : A cholera epidemic hit outside of Port - au - Prince, killing at least 3,597 and sickening over 340,000. 5 November : Hurricane Tomas hits and kills at least 10 Haitiens causing damage and worsening the cholera epidemic. 2016 3 -- 4 October : Hurricane Matthew hits Haiti with catastrophic flooding of up to 40 inches and storm surge of up to 10 feet. At least 580 people were killed and more than 35,000 left homeless by the storm. References Jump up ^ Natural disasters of Haiti Archived 2001 - 12 - 25 at the Wayback Machine. ( in French ) Jump up ^ Jules Trousset, Nouveau Dictionnaire encyclopédique universel illustré, 1886 -- 1889, tome 3, p. 214 Jump up ^ In 1770, the historian Moreau de Saint - Méry reported that `` la ville entière fut renversée '' ( `` the entire city was turned upside down '' ) Jump up ^ Moreau de Saint - Méry, Description topographique, physique, civile, politique et historique de la partie française de l'Ile Saint Domingue, quoted in Claude Prepetit, `` Tremblements de terre en Haïti, mythe ou réalité ? '', Le Matin, Issue 33082, 9 October 2008 Jump up ^ Madiou, Thomas. Histoire d'Haïti. Tome V : 1811 -- 1818 ; p. 368 Jump up ^ Séisme en Haïti, la bonne carte tectonique Jump up ^ According to the Haitian Office of Civil Protection, quoted by Haiti - Press Network on 5 June 2002 Jump up ^ According to a report dated 8 June 2004 by Haitian Civil Protection Jump up ^ Le cri de Mapou Jump up ^ Haïti - Pays en crise Jump up ^ Sources : Civil Protection, 4 October 2004 Jump up ^ Inondations en Haïti 25 novembre 2006 Jump up ^ Course of Tropical Storm Fay, 2008 Archived 2011 - 07 - 21 at the Wayback Machine. Jump up ^ `` La ville est inondée et en certains endroits l'eau atteint deux mètres... De nombreux habitants sont réfugiés sur les toits des maisons depuis hier soir pour fuir la montée des eaux ''. ( `` The town is flooded and at certain points the water is up to two metres... Numerous residents have taken refuge on house roofs since yesterday evening, in flight from the rising waters '' ), Alta Jean - Baptiste, Director of Civil Protection. Jump up ^ Un nouveau séisme de magnitude 6 frappe Haïti Jump up ^ Haïti : nouveau séisme de magnitude 6, 1 Jump up ^ `` Haiti cholera outbreak prompts fresh UN aid plea ''. BBC News. 12 November 2010. Retrieved 12 November 2010. Jump up ^ `` Hurricane Matthew advisory 22 ''. National Hurricane Center. 3 October 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2016. 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Question: name of hurricane that hit haiti in 2010
Answer: Hurricane Tomas