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Introduction

Hurricane Maria was a deadly Category 5 hurricane that devastated the northeastern Caribbean in September 2017, particularly Dominica, Saint Croix, and Puerto Rico. It is regarded as the worst natural disaster in recorded history to affect those islands

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Learning from Hurricane Maria's Impacts on Puerto Rico
Documents and publications
2021

Learning from Hurricane Maria’s impacts on Puerto Rico: a progress report

This report explains in detail the rationale for launching the multi-year effort to study how critical buildings performed during the 2017 Hurricane Maria, as well as how emergency communications systems worked beside the summary of progress to date.
National Institute of Standards and Technology Department of Commerce
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Documents and publications
2021

Rigorously valuing the impact of Hurricanes Irma and Maria on coastal hazard risk in Florida and Puerto Rico

Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017 caused widespread damage to coral reefs in the State of Florida and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. These damages were measured in post-storm surveys of reefs and assessed in terms of their impact on reef condition and

United States Geological Survey
Research briefs

Hurricane damage harms the most vulnerable, reveals inequality and social divides

Social and economic issues from before Hurricane Maria’s landfall were among the top predictors of damage and can be addressed to limit the extent of future disasters.
Conversation Media Group, the
Updates

Once in the eye of the storm, Dominica looks toward a resilient future

USAID has helped Dominica to recover from Hurricane Maria, bolstering the island's self-reliance through efforts to prepare for future storms.
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Medium
Documents and publications
2019

After Maria: Everyday recovery from disaster

This graphic novella provides ethical representations of developing country contexts through Natalia, the novella's protagonist, whose story is about how low-income Puerto Rican families recovered from the impacts of 2017's Hurricane Maria.
Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, University of Manchester
Research briefs

Climate change to blame for Hurricane Maria’s extreme rainfall

A new study analyzing Puerto Rico’s hurricane history finds 2017’s Maria had the highest average rainfall of the 129 storms to have struck the island in the past 60 years. The new study adds to the growing body of evidence that human-caused warming is making extreme weather events like these more common, according to the authors.
American Geophysical Union
Research briefs

Puerto Rico: Hurricane Maria study warns: Climate-driven storms may raze many tropical forests

New research reveals that Hurricane Maria killed twice as many trees outright as previous storms, and broke more than three times as many trunks in Puerto Rico. With climate change expected to contribute to bigger, more frequent storms, future disasters could permanently alter forests across much of the Atlantic tropics by limiting biodiversity.
Earth Institute, the
Documents and publications
2019

Landslides triggered by Hurricane Maria: assessment of an extreme event in Puerto Rico

Using satellite-based soil moisture data and correlating this with the distribution of landslides during Hurricane Maria, this paper suggests that the future use of soil moisture data could enable assessments of regional landslide susceptibility prior to

Geological Society of America, the
Documents and publications
2019

Supporting resilient reconstruction in Dominica: building back better for a resilient future

This Results in Resilience story describes how the Africa Caribbean Pacific-European Union Natural Disaster Risk Reduction (ACP-EU NDRR) Program has supported Dominica following Hurricane Maria in September 2017, through a first project to conduct a Post

Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the
Documents and publications
2018

Social vulnerability and the role of Puerto Rico’s healthcare workers after Hurricane Maria

Hurricane Maria was one of the most devastating storms in United States history. The tremendous force of the hurricane, along with the associated wind, rain, flooding, and critical infrastructure damage, caused incredible disruption to lives and

Natural Hazards Center