Hurricane Maria has continued its trail of destruction in the Caribbean, making landfall near Yabucoa, Puerto Rico on 20 September with maximum sustained winds of 155 mph (250 km/h). Dominica,…
“A lot of the damage now comes from extreme precipitation. So that translates into floods, landslides, loss of life, loss of livelihoods” BOGOTA, July 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As…
Heavy rain over the last few days has caused flooding in parts of the Caribbean, including Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Haiti. Haiti In Haiti, the Ministry of Interior issued a…
Flooding has caused major problems in at least 6 provinces in the Dominican Republic after staggering amounts of rainfall over the last few days. According to the country’s meteorological office…
Disaster authorities in the Dominican Republic say that a period of heavy rain caused flooding in northern areas of the country from 23 March 2017. As of 25 March, 1,770…
Slow moving frontal systems draped over Hispaniola and a tropical wave recently caused heavy rainfall that led to wide spread flooding over the northern Dominican Republic. NASA analyzed that heavy…
Heavy rain continues to fall in parts of the Dominican Republic, where thousands remain displaced by floods and landslides that have affected the country since 07 November. Five locations recorded…
Thousands of people have been displaced by flooding in the Dominican Republic over the last few days. Heavy rain began to fall in the country from 07 November, causing flooding…
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland has produced a rainfall analysis from Hurricane Matthew. It was accomplished using data from NASA’s Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG). The…
In 1996, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) launched a comprehensive agenda for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) throughout the Latin America and the…
Hurricane Matthew made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane near Les Anglais in the Sud Department of Haiti during the morning of 04 October 2016. The storm dropped significant amounts…
Tropical Storm Matthew has caused severe flood and wind damage in parts of the Eastern Caribbean, including the islands of Martinique, St. Lucia, Dominica, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.…
A severe rain storm hit Dominican Republic on 31 July 2016, causing flooding and landslides. Local media report that at least 7 people have died. The storm has also affected…
Haiti and Dominican Republic have suffered several major flood events over the last few weeks. Dozens of people have died and thousands forced from their homes after a series of…
At least 5 people have died in Haiti, over 3,000 people have been displaced in the Dominican Republic and hundreds of homes damaged in Nicaragua after a period of heavy…
Severe weather has been affecting the island of Hispaniola over the last days, causing floods and major damage both in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Over 4,000 people have been…
