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Four people were killed in the Dominican Republic, while 31 were killed in Haiti. Laura also caused more than 100,000 people to lose power in the Dominican Republic. Downed trees and flooding were reported in both countries. [107] [108] August 23, 2023 - Hurricane Franklin makes landfall in the Dominican Republic as a tropical storm. The storm ...
The Dominican Republic is exposed to a number of natural hazards, such as hurricanes, storms, floods, drought, earthquakes, and fires. The destructive force of these phenomena can be enormous - in 1998 Hurricane Georges caused economic losses estimated at US$2,193 (14 percent of gross national income ), and 235 deaths.
The Dominican Republic [a] is a North American country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean.It shares a maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and a land border with Haiti to the west, occupying the eastern five-eighths of Hispaniola which, along with Saint Martin, is one of only two islands in the Caribbean shared ...
The government of the Dominican Republic has upgraded the Tropical Storm Watch to a Tropical Storm Warning for the entire northern and eastern coast from the Haiti border eastward and southward to ...
Tsunamis in the Dominican Republic (1 P) Pages in category "Natural disasters in the Dominican Republic" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
spring flooding Haiti, Dominican Republic: 2004 1,558 St. Martin flood, storm surge Netherlands: 1686 1,532 [citation needed] 2002 China flood, torrential floods, mud-rock flows China: 2002 1,503 [citation needed] Mumbai and the surrounding state Maharashtra, Karnataka, monsoon rain in 2005: India: 2005 1,437 [citation needed]
The Dominican Republic reported significant rainfall and coastal flooding due to Matthew. An automated weather station in Cabo Rojo measured 8.43 in (214 mm) of rain by the afternoon of October 3. [102] Four people died after a house collapsed on top of them. [76] Damage of the flooding were about RD$20 billion (US$434 million). [77]
At the time of the collapse, the storm was within 21 miles of the city of Barahona in the Dominican Republic, which has most of its provinces under high alert for flooding and landslides.