Hurricane Mitch 1998

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Introduction

Hurricane Mitch is widely remembered as one of the most destructive hurricanes to strike Central America, in no small part because it caused widespread homelessness in Honduras.

Hazards
Cyclone, Hurricane and Typhoon
Country and region
United States of America

Knowledge base

Update

Disaster management partnership helps pave way for a safer Honduras

The Government of Honduras has initiated a partnership with the Pacific Disaster Center on a national disaster preparedness assessment. The assessment provides information about underlying factors that exacerbate disaster risk, and assists decision-making on investments and disaster risk management.
Pacific Disaster Center
Update

Ten years after Mitch, Central Americans remain vulnerable

'The frequency and intensity of the storms have increased every year. The threat has grown faster than our capacity to respond to it' said Conor Walsh, country representative in Nicaragua for Catholic Relief Services....
Catholic News Service
Documents and publications

Natural disasters and adaptive capacity

OECD Development Center working paper, no. 237

Natural disasters (droughts, earthquakes, epidemics, floods, wind storms) damage well-being, both in their immediate and long-term aftermath, and because the insecurity of exposure to disasters is in itself

Documents and publications

Flood-hazard mapping in Honduras in response to Hurricane Mitch

The purpose of this report is to describe the methodology developed to estimate the 50-year flood discharge for areas throughout Honduras and map the extent and depth of flooding. The report provides regional data to facilitate flood-hazard mapping in

Documents and publications

Learning lessons from disaster recovery: the case of Honduras

This is the first review of recovery in Honduras that examines all sectors.
Documents and publications

Activities in Guatemala in support of the U.S. Hurricane Mitch reconstruction program: a final report submitted to the U.S. Agency for International Development

On October 25, 1998, Hurricane Mitch, the fourth most intense Atlantic Ocean hurricane on record, slammed into the Central American coastline. This report compiled by the USGS compiles a wide variety of data and information in Guatemala including detailed

Documents and publications

Activities in support of the Hurricane Mitch reconstruction program

As part of the U.S. Government’s program to assist Central America in the recovery from Hurricane Mitch, the USGS conducted a $14.15 million program of activities in Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala. This effort was designed to strengthen

Documents and publications

Activities in El Salvador in support of the U.S. Hurricane Mitch reconstruction program: a final report submitted to the U.S. Agency for International Development

On October 25, 1998, Hurricane Mitch, the fourth most intense Atlantic Ocean hurricane on record, slammed into the Central American coastline. This report compiled by the USGS compiles a wide variety of data and information in El Salvador including

Documents and publications

Activities in Nicaragua in support of the U.S. Hurricane Mitch reconstruction program: a final report submitted to the U.S. Agency for International Development

On October 25, 1998, Hurricane Mitch, the fourth most intense Atlantic Ocean hurricane on record, slammed into the Central American coastline. This report compiled by the USGS compiles a wide variety of data and information in Nicaragua including detailed

Documents and publications

Digital inventory of landslides and related deposits in honduras triggered by hurricane Mitch

Intense rainfall from 1998 Hurricane Mitch, triggered in excess of 500,000 landslides, particularly debris flows, throughout the country. Landslides damaged an estimated 70% of the road network in Honduras. Numbers of fatalities due to landslides are not

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