Continuing and Professional Education Centre. Tuesday, August 25, 2020 — The UWI Open Campus and CCRIF SPC (formerly the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility) successfully delivered a train-the-trainer workshop on a new course to be offered at the University, “Disaster Risk Financing for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (SIDS)”.
Tropical Cyclone Isaias was the ninth tropical cyclone in the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season. On 28 July it developed as Potential Tropical Cyclone Nine over the central Atlantic, to the east of the Leeward Islands. On 29 July, it was upgraded to a tropical cyclone while it was over the Caribbean Sea, to the south of Puerto Rico. On 30 July, it strengthened to a category 1 hurricane while it was to the north of the Dominican Republic.
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake occurred at 00:03:46 UTC on 2 August 2020, 34.7 km (21.6 mi) NW of Güiria, Venezuela; 113.3 km (70.4 mi) W of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago and 115.5 km (71.8 mi) NW of Point Fortin, Trinidad and Tobago. Estimates from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) located the epicentre of the event at 10.767°N, 62.550°W, and at a depth of 91.7 km (56.9 mi).
Gonzalo was the seventh tropical cyclone in the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season. On 22 July it developed as a tropical storm over the central Atlantic, to the east of the southern Windward Islands. On 25 July, Tropical Storm Gonzalo made landfall on Trinidad, affecting the island with tropical-storm-force winds, while Tobago experienced winds below 39 mph.
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake occurred at 00:03:46 UTC on 2 August 2020, 34.7 km (21.6 mi) NW of Güiria, Venezuela; 113.3 km (70.4 mi) W of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago and 115.5 km (71.8 mi) NW of Point Fortin, Trinidad and Tobago. Initial estimates from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) located the epicentre of the event at 10.767°N, 62.550°W, and at a depth of 91.7 km (56.9 mi).
Tropical Cyclone Isaias was the ninth tropical cyclone in the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season. On 28 July it developed as Potential Tropical Cyclone Nine over the central Atlantic, to the east of the Leeward Islands. On 29 July, it was upgraded to a tropical cyclone while it was over the Caribbean Sea, to the south of Puerto Rico. On 30 July, it strengthened to a category 1 hurricane while it was to the north of the Dominican Republic.
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake occurred at 22:38:43 UTC on 12 July 2020, 6.4 km (4 mi) W of El Crucero, Nicaragua; 18.1 km (11.3 mi) S of Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua and 18.3 km (11.4 mi) NNE of San Rafael del Sur, Nicaragua. Estimates from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) located the epicentre of the event at 11.998°N, 86.368°W, and at a depth of 158.8 km (98.7 mi) – Figure 1. Nicaragua was the only CCRIF member country where peak ground acceleration, computed with the CCRIF SPHERA model, was greater than 0.01 g for this earthquake.
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Panama was under the influence of a monsoon trough and several tropical waves resulting in adverse weather conditions that occurred in the period between 25 June and 5 July, 2020. During this period, Panama was affected by heavy rains and high winds over a large area of the territory.
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, June 24, 2020. CCRIF SPC made a payout of US$203,136 to the Government of Belize on its Excess Rainfall parametric insurance policy following three days of heavy rains during Tropical Storms Amanda and Cristobal. Amanda was a tropical cyclone that originated in the Pacific Ocean and brought rains that affected Belize on 30 May and then weakened. However, the remnants of Amanda then reorganized to form Tropical Storm Cristobal in the Gulf of Mexico – thus becoming a cross-over cyclone from the Pacific to the Atlantic.