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Disaster risk profile: Aruba

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This country disaster risk profile is an estimation of the potential economic losses to property caused by adverse natural hazards. This brief focuses on hurricanes and earthquakes risk profile of Aruba.

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  • The hurricane risk in Aruba is more significant than the earthquake risk. 
  • Annual Average Loss (AAL) from hurricanes is US$ 4.8M (0.14% of GDP) and from earthquakes is US$ 1.5M (0.04% of GDP). 
  • The Probable Maximum Loss for hurricanes (250 year return period) is US$ 310M (9.2% of GDP) and for earthquakes (250 year return period) is US$ 59M (1.8% of GDP). 

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Aruba hurricanes and earthquakes risk profile 0.6 MB, PDF, English

Document links last validated on: 4 October 2023

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Hazards Cyclone, Hurricane and Typhoon Earthquake
Themes Economics of DRR Risk identification and assessment Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
Country and region Aruba
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Number of pages
3 p.
Publication year
2023

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