Dominica

Dominica Major Hazards   In Dominica, I would say the two main natural hazards that occur are floodings and earthquakes.    In Dominica, flooding happens very often because of tropical storms that create large amounts of rainfall which ends up flooding the land. Another way the island floods is by hurricanes because Dominica is an island and gets hit very hard by some hurricanes which cause mass flooding, and the flooding destroys structures on the island. These hurricanes also cause lots of wildlife and native plants and trees to die which harms the environment.   Earthquakes also affect Dominica in a big way because Dominica sits close to the margin of the Caribbean plate. Dominica experiences an above-average frequency of earthquakes. Over the course of the past year, Dominica has had 18 earthquakes, and so has averaged more than one a month. While they occur with some frequency, they are not typically large-magnitude events. This year the largest earthquake in Dominica was a 5.1 ma