Hurricane Mitch
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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
Damage in Tegucigalpa
Mudslide in San Juancito, Honduras
Flooding in Lake Managua after the hurricane
Casita volcano in western Nicaragua after deadly mudslide
The 1998 Atlantic hurricane season was an active, catastrophic, and extremely deadly Atlantic hurricane season, which had the highest number of storm-related fatalities in 2 centuries and ranks as the
Hurricane Mitch
…behind the Great Hurricane of 1780, which killed at least 22,000 people. The thirteenth named storm, ninth hurricane, and third major hurricane of the 1998 Atlantic hurricane season, Mitch formed in the western Caribbean Sea on October 22, and after responding to extremely favorable conditions, it rapidly strengthened to peak at…
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