Abstract
The Caribbean Tsunami History contains 11 events with deaths reported due to tsunamis. Many events of catastrophic proportions make no mention of fatalities. Most reports have estimates for earthquake fatalities, and deaths from tsunamis are lumped in with them or no account is taken of them. Countless others were injured, unaccounted for, or left homeless. In the 1780 Savanna-laMar account, about 300 people perished from a dreadful wave in Jamaica. The 3.2-meter wave surged 805 meters beyond the shore, and “so sudden and unavoidable was the destruction, although it took place at noon-day, that at one gentleman’s house, consisting of 10 whites and 40 Negroes, not a soul escaped.” Elsewhere this was reported as 10 deaths.
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O’loughlin, K.F., Lander, J.F. (2003). Education About Tsunami Risks. In: Caribbean Tsunamis. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0321-5_5
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