Hurricane BUD Category 3
The chart below shows the predicted path of Hurricane BUD, along with estimated wind speeds and sustained winds reaching 100 knots...
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Hurricane BUD Category 4
That means by Friday, June 15, Hurricane BUD will be approaching Baja California—though the good news is that by Saturday, June 16, it's expected to start weakening...
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Hurricanes, Earthquakes, and Other Natural Disasters
If you plot the magnitude and frequency of major natural disasters throughout history on a graph, the outcome isn’t random. In fact, it's surprisingly predictable...
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Hurricane Gilbert 1988
In Mexico, Gilbert struck the states of Quintana Roo, Yucatán, Campeche, Nuevo León, Coahuila, and Tamaulipas, causing the deaths of at least 250 people, displacing nearly 150,000, and resulting in damages worth...
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Hurricane Janet 1955
The first hurricane ever officially recorded. Hurricane Janet, a Category 5 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale, made landfall on September 27, 1955, in Quintana Roo. According to reports from the time, the most affected c
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Hurricane Liza 1976
Hurricane Liza reached Category 4 on September 30, 1976, before slamming into the southern Baja California Peninsula and Sonora. It made landfall in La Paz Bay, leaving a trail of destruction and...
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