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Caribbean Disaster Information Network

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Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria.

Welcome to CARDIN

Dominica After Hurricane Maria.

Guadeloupe

Guadgeloupe after Hurricane Maria.

Bahamas

Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian.

Mission

Caribbean Youth Disaster Conference

"CARDIN, in collaboration with its partners, seeks to provide a new and dynamic approach to accessing and disseminating disaster related information in a manner that adequately prepares and minimizes the effect of disasters in the Caribbean Region…" Read more

Upcoming Events

Mar 22

World Water Day 2021

Venue: Worldwide

Jun 21

CONFERENCE OF PARTIES FOR THE CARTAGENA CONVENTION (COPS)

Venue: To be announced

Oct 28

Literature as warning and climate change: Diana McCaulay's Daylight come

Venue: STREAMING LIVE: YOUTUBE.COM/UWIMONAMEDIA

Latest Around The Caribbean

Gov't to announce Christmas COVID measures in two weeks...extend existing step under the Disaster Risk Management Act

(Source: Jamaica Observer)

Storm Eta: Around 150 feared dead in Guatemala

(Source: BBC News)

Hurricane Iota: Category 5 storm heads for Central America (Source: BBC News)

Category 4 hurricane slams into Nicaragua (Source: The Washington Post)

3.4 magnitude earthquake felt in Jamaica (Source: Jamaica Observer)

Hurrican Eta, now category 3, threatens flooding in Central American (Source: Jamaica Observer)

Eta forecast to become a hurricane overnight (Source: Loop News)

Jamaica, Cayman brace for heavy flooding as TS Eta intensifies (Source: Loop News)

More heavy rainfall for Jamaica as TS Zeta moves over the Caribbean Sea (Source: Loop Jamaica)

Tropical storm Zeta is expected to strengthen to a hurricane on Monday (Source: The Sun Sentinel)

Tropical storm Zeta stalls in Caribbean as hurricane Epsilon passes eastern US (Source: The Guardian)

NOAA hurricane hunter aircraft finds Zeta rapidly strengthening (Source: Meteorological Services of Jamaica)

Hazards and disaster in the Insular Caribbean: A systematic literature review

Submitted by 10013077 on February 12, 2020 - 12:25pm

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287399190_Hazards_and_disasters_in_the_Insular_Caribbean_A_systematic_literature_review

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Natural hazards

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Jamaica, Cuba rattled by powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake

Submitted by 10013077 on February 3, 2020 - 11:27am

https://time.com/5773246/jamaica-cuba-earthquake/

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Earthquake; Natural disaster; Jamaica; Cuba

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Abandon Ship? Disaster Risk Reduction & Small Island Resilience in Light of Dorian

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Fostering Business Creation through CleanTech Innovation

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The UWI | EU-LAC Foundation Roundtable - A Destiny of Geography?

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Nature's terrrorist hurricane Irma

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