Trinidad and Tobago — Natural Disaster Report
North America · Live status: Elevated (7 active events)
Current situation: 7 natural disaster events are currently monitored in Trinidad and Tobago, with a worst severity of Moderate. Details, sources and timestamps are listed below.
Trinidad and Tobago sits at the southern edge of the hurricane belt and is struck less often than islands further north, though storms such as Bret in 1993 have caused damage. The islands lie on the active boundary between the Caribbean and South American plates and experience frequent earthquakes, with a magnitude 6.9 event in 2018 causing damage. Flooding and landslides affect the Northern Range and low-lying areas of Trinidad during the wet season, and the country has mud volcanoes that occasionally erupt.
Live map — Trinidad and Tobago
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Active alerts & recent events
Latest earthquakes
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By hazard in Trinidad and Tobago
Each of these has its own page: recent activity, the season it happens in, past events and what to do.
Risk profile
Earthquakes year-round along the plate boundary. Flooding and landslides during the wet season, June-December. Tropical storms, less frequent than further north, June-November. Coastal erosion. Mud volcano activity.
Official emergency authorities
Disaster displacement in Trinidad and Tobago
129 internal displacements
Largest single event: 129 from storm, beginning 30 June 2024.
A displacement is a movement, not a person: somebody forced from home more than once in a year is counted more than once. These are movements caused by disasters only — displacement caused by conflict is counted separately and is not included here.
| Hazard | Displacements in 2024 |
|---|---|
| Storm | 129 |
Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), Global Internal Displacement Database. IDMC publishes annually, so the latest year here is the latest they have finalised — not the current one.
What this site sees in Trinidad and Tobago
| Source | Events here, last 12 months | What it will not tell you |
|---|---|---|
| NASA FIRMS | 116 | Global, but it sees only what the satellite saw on its pass, and thick cloud hides fire. A quiet day here is not evidence that nothing burned. |
| WMO Alert Hub (national weather services) | 2 | Each warning comes from one country own alerting authority, so the scale is that agency scale and is not comparable between countries. Many agencies publish no coordinates, and those warnings are placed at the centre of the country rather than where the weather is - the area name is the real answer. |
| European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre | 1 | Global for earthquakes, with the best coverage in Europe and the Mediterranean. It publishes nothing about any other hazard. |
| GDACS (European Commission / United Nations) | none | Global, but deliberately selective: it alerts on disasters likely to need INTERNATIONAL response. Serious local flooding that a national agency handles alone will not appear here. |
| US Geological Survey | none | Global for earthquakes above roughly M4.5, and denser where there are more seismometers. It publishes nothing about any other hazard. |
| NASA EONET | none | Global and curated rather than automatic, so it is slower than the raw feeds and carries far fewer events. |
| MeteoAlarm (EUMETNET) | none | Europe only. It publishes no coordinates at all, so every warning here is placed at the centre of its country and the area name is the only reliable indication of where it applies. |
| NOAA Tsunami Warning Centers | none | These two centres warn for the US and Canadian coasts and for the Pacific and Caribbean basins. The Indian Ocean and Mediterranean have their own warning centres, which are not read here. Their routine information statements - the ones that say there is NO tsunami danger - are deliberately not imported, so an empty tsunami list means no threat was issued, not that nothing was checked. |
| NOAA National Hurricane Center | none | The Atlantic and the eastern and central Pacific only. No typhoon in the western Pacific and no cyclone in the Indian Ocean or the southern hemisphere appears here; those come from GDACS and from national services. |
| ReliefWeb (UN OCHA) | none | Global, but it reports on humanitarian RESPONSE. It arrives days after an event rather than during it, and never functions as a warning. |
Not applicable here: US National Weather Service — Covers the United States only. It publishes nothing about any other country, so its absence from a country page is not an outage. ; USGS Volcano Hazards Program — United States volcanoes only - Alaska, Hawaii, the Cascades, Yellowstone, California and the Northern Mariana Islands. It says nothing about Indonesia, Iceland, Italy or anywhere else, so its silence about a foreign eruption is not a judgement about that eruption.
Frequently asked questions
What natural disasters are currently active in Trinidad and Tobago?
There are currently 7 monitored natural disaster events in Trinidad and Tobago. The overall risk status is Elevated. See the live list on this page for details and sources.
What natural hazards does Trinidad and Tobago face?
Trinidad and Tobago sits at the southern edge of the hurricane belt and is struck less often than islands further north, though storms such as Bret in 1993 have caused damage. The islands lie on the active boundary between the Caribbean and South American plates and experience frequent earthquakes, with a magnitude 6.9 event in 2018 causing damage.
When is the main natural disaster season in Trinidad and Tobago?
Earthquakes year-round along the plate boundary. Flooding and landslides during the wet season, June-December. Tropical storms, less frequent than further north, June-November. Coastal erosion. Mud volcano activity. Seasons shift from year to year; treat these as the usual pattern, not a forecast.
Which official agency issues disaster warnings in Trinidad and Tobago?
Official warnings for Trinidad and Tobago are issued by Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management (ODPM) and Trinidad and Tobago Meteorological Service. Links to each are on this page. This site aggregates and reports; it does not issue warnings, and in an emergency the national agency is the authority.
Where does this disaster data for Trinidad and Tobago come from?
Data is aggregated from official sources including USGS, GDACS (EC/UN), NASA EONET, ReliefWeb and national agencies. Every event links to its original source, and update times are shown on each record.
Data sources: USGS, GDACS (EC/UN), NASA EONET, NOAA/NWS, EMSC, ReliefWeb (UN OCHA). See data sources & attribution and methodology. This page does not replace official emergency guidance.