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On January 24, 2010, Haiti was hit with a devastating earthquake, with an epicenter near the town of Léogâne and approximately 25 km (16 mi) west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital. This earthquake had a magnitude of 7.0. Reports estimated that approximately 3 million people were affected by the earthquake in some way. Aftershocks measuring 5.9 and 6.0 and Tsunami waves in six major communities all added to this epic disaster. According to official estimates, 222,570 people were killed, and another 300,000 were injured. Vital infrastructure was destroyed including all hospitals in the capital, transport facilities, and communication systems. Also, this

On August 5, 2018, a destructive earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 struck the island of Lombok, Indonesia. The fault rupture spread to the north and reached the sea, which caused a tsunami. Severe shaking was reported throughout the entire island, and widespread damage was reported in Lombok and in Bali. Officials reported that over 80 percent of structures in North Lombok were either damaged or destroyed. According to reports, during the aftermath of the sequence of earthquakes in August, a total of 563 people were confirmed killed while more than 1,000 were confirmed injured. More than 417,000 people were

Volcán de Fuego, which is Spanish for “Volcano of Fire”, is one of the most active volcanoes in the world and is located about 27 miles (47 km) from Guatemala City. On June 3, 2018, Volcán de Fuego erupted, which included lahars, pyroclastic flows, and clouds of volcanic ash, which left almost no evacuation time and caused the death of nearly two hundred people. Lahars are violent mud and debris flows and pyroclastic flows consisting of hot gas and volcanic matter. These flows are fast moving currents, which can reach a speed of up to 700km/h (450mph) and are considered

In 2017, Puerto Rico was hit with a deadly category 5 hurricane, named Hurricane Maria. hurricane Maria is regarded as the deadliest Atlantic hurricane since Jeanne in 2004. Prior to both hurricane Irma and hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico was already struggling with access to sustainable and reliable power and water. The island’s water system is already vulnerable and the Natural Resource Defense Council reported that approximately 70 percent of the island had water that did not meet the standards of the 1974 Safe Drinking Water Act. Puerto Rico was just starting to recover after Irma that happened two weeks prior

In 2017, the Dominican Republic was hit with a deadly category 5 hurricane, named Hurricane Maria. Hurricane Maria is regarded as the deadliest Atlantic hurricane since Jeanne in 2004. Before Maria hit, the Domincan Republic experienced heavy rainfall causing several landslides in Dominica, as water levels across the island began to rise by the afternoon of September 18. On September 19, Maria hit Dominica with maximum sustained winds of 165 mph (270 km/h). These winds were the most extreme to have ever impacted the island, causing damage to thousands of homes. Maria destroyed all cellular, radio, and internet services, which

On December 20, 2016 the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) president, Joseph Kabila, announced that he would not leave office despite the end of his constitutional term. Protests subsequently broke out across the country. It was reported that more than 3,000 people have been killed and at least 1.7 million were forced to flee their homes in Kasai since the start of the insurrection by the Kamuina Nsapu militia. The Militia fighting that broke out in Congo’s central Kasai region had left 3.2 million people without enough to eat because the conflict drove farmers from their land and disrupted

Hurricane Otto was the first tropical cyclone since Hurricane Cesar-Douglas (1996) to crossover from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. Hurricane Otto quickly intensified on November 23-24, 2016 to a category 3 major hurricane. Otto hit Nicaragua at the peak of its intensity on November 24. Otto weakened rapidly as it moved across southern Nicaragua on Thursday after making landfall on that country’s Caribbean coast as a dangerous Category 2 storm. It was the southernmost hurricane on record to hit Central America.Otto left torrential rainfall across the affected regions with some areas receiving up to a month’s worth of