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Hurricane Maria: Quick Facts

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Facts

Date September 2017
Location Dominica • Puerto Rico

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Map showing the track of Hurricane Maria from September 12 to 30, 2017, across the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea. The storm's path is color-coded by intensity, moving from tropical storm to category 5 hurricane, and passing over several islands including Dominica and Puerto Rico, where it made landfall as a category 4 hurricane. The map includes an inset with detailed labeling of affected Caribbean islands and wind speeds at key locations.
Palm trees bend sharply in strong wind and rain, with debris and fallen branches in the foreground during Hurricane Maria in Petit-Bourg, Guadeloupe.
A man leans on the railing of a pink house's porch, looking at floodwaters covering the ground after Hurricane Maria in Loiza, Puerto Rico, as a child walks inside.
Aerial view of a coastal road in Humacao, Puerto Rico, with downed power line poles and damaged, leafless palm trees along the shoreline after Hurricane Maria.
A truck drives through deep floodwater on a residential street surrounded by buildings in San Juan, Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.
Infographic bar graph comparing U.S. death tolls from major events, with COVID-19 at over 1.1 million deaths, the Civil War and 1918-19 flu pandemic each above 675,000, and smaller bars for wars, pandemics, and disasters such as World War II, the Vietnam War, and September 11.
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