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1 day ago · The costliest hurricanes were Katrina in 2005 and Harvey in 2017, both with uninflated damage totals amounting to US$125 billion. Of the 41 Atlantic hurricanes with damages exceeding $1.01 billion after accounting for inflation (2017 dollars), 20 have occurred after the year 2000, though this list does not include 2018's Michael nor Florence.
31 minutes ago · The Federal Republic of Central America ( Spanish: República Federal de Centro América ), originally known as the United Provinces of Central America ( Provincias Unidas del Centro de América ), was a sovereign state in Central America which existed from 1823 to 1839. The federal republic was composed of five states: Costa Rica, El Salvador ...
1 day ago · The majority of the Guatemalan diaspora is located in the United States of America, with estimates ranging from 480,665 to 1,489,426. Emigration to the United States has led to the growth of Guatemalan communities in California, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Texas, Rhode Island and elsewhere since the 1970s.
- Unitary presidential republic
1 day ago · Kabul [a] is the capital city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province; it is administratively divided into 22 municipal districts. According to 2023 estimates, the population of Kabul was 4.95 million people. [3] In contemporary times, the city has served as ...
- 1,791 m (5,876 ft)
- Afghanistan
1 day ago · Hurricane Hugo. Hurricane Hugo was a powerful Cape Verde tropical cyclone that inflicted widespread destruction across the northeastern Caribbean and the Southeastern United States in September 1989. The eleventh tropical cyclone, eighth named storm, sixth hurricane, and second major hurricane [a] of the 1989 Atlantic hurricane season, Hugo ...
- September 10, 1989
- $11 billion (1989 USD)
- 160 mph (260 km/h)
24 minutes ago · Increased solar activity could cause auroras as far south as Alabama and Northern California, but may disrupt communications on Earth tonight and over the weekend.
1 day ago · 53.4 m (175 ft) (1960) [3] The Aral Sea ( / ˈærəl /) [4] [a] was an endorheic lake lying between Kazakhstan to its north and Uzbekistan to its south which began shrinking in the 1960s and largely dried up by the 2010s. It was in the Aktobe and Kyzylorda regions of Kazakhstan and the Karakalpakstan autonomous region of Uzbekistan.
