Since Hurricane Maria 1,862 persons are in 63 shelters, observational evidence suggests that there is a
predominance of women, elderly persons, and children in the shelters. Site visits indicate that elderly women

Of the 5,885 people in the survey (with known age and sex) 254 (4.3 %) were reported injured (Table 13).
This gives an estimated number of 5,953 cases of injury for the whole population of the island.

On November 21, 2004, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurred offshore, 10 km south of Les Saintes archipelago in Guadeloupe (French West Indies). There were more than 30000 aftershocks recorded in the following two years, most of them at shallow depth near the islands of the archipelago. The main shock and its main aftershock of February 14, 2005 (Mw = 5.8) ruptured a NE‐dipping normal fault (Roseau fault), mapped and identified as active from high‐resolution bathymetric data a few years before.