Historical disasters
5. Landslides
5.2. Reunion
The mahavel landslide:
In 1965, 30 000 000 m3 of a part of the cliff of river channel of Mahavel, a district of Saint Pierre, fell.
The landslide didn’t cause victims but the noise was heard from Saint Joseph.
Waterfront Road landslide:
In 2006, in the waterfront road, 30000 m3 of rock fells on the road, there was 2 dead and 2 wounded. Since this big landslide, the government had put in place the building of the new waterfront road
The Salazie landslide:
The last year at Salazie, 10000 m3 rocks fell near to a river, the biggest rock weighed 2 t. There were no victims, but the road was stucked and it had scare people were living in the circus.
