Hurricane / Cyclone / Typhoon Honduras
1998 Hurricane Mitch
Slow-moving Category 5 hurricane caused catastrophic rain, floods and landslides across Central America.
Background from Wikipedia
Hurricane Mitch was an extremely powerful, deadly and catastrophic tropical cyclone in 1998 that caused 11,374 fatalities in Central America, becoming the second-deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record. It was the deadliest hurricane in Central American history, surpassing Hurricane Fifi, which killed slightly fewer people in the same area in 1974. Mitch was the deadliest Atlantic hurricane in the satellite era, and the second-deadliest on record in the Atlantic, only behind the Great Hurricane of 1780, which killed at least 22,000 people.
From the Wikipedia article “Hurricane Mitch”, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikipedia's figures may differ from the sources cited on this page.
Sources & references
Impact figures
| Fatalities | 11,000 |
|---|---|
| Economic damage | $6,000,000,000 (nominal) |
| People affected | 2,700,000 |
| Region | Honduras and Nicaragua |
Figures per cited sources; estimates for older events vary.
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