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Antigua and Barbuda, St Kitts and Nevis Baffin Island Beaufort Sea Victoria Island ARCTIC CIRCLE ARCTIC CIRCLE ALASKA US Anchorage Hudson Bay Bering Labrador Sea Gulf of Alaska Sea CANADA s Queen Charlotte n d l a Islands I s i a n September 9, 2017 e u t A l Calgary Regina Winnipeg Newfoundland Vancouver Ile Vancouver Island d'Anticosti Seattle Québec Portland Montréal Cape Breton Island Minneapolis OTTAWA Toronto NORTH Milwaukee Nova Scotia Detroit Boston Cleveland Antigua andChicago Barbuda,Cleveland PACIFIC OCEAN New York Salt Lake City Pittsburgh Philadelphia Denver Kansas City Indianapolis Baltimore Sacramento St-Louis WASHINGTON San Francisco St UNITEDKitts STATES and Nevis Hurricane Irma Memphis Los Angeles Atlanta San Diego Dallas Bermuda TheMexicali Appeal UK Ciudad Juárez Austin Houston The Antigua and Barbuda Red Cross, the St Kitts and Nevis New NORTH Guadalupe San Antonio Orleans Mexico Red Cross Society, and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) are responding to the ATLANTIC OCEAN devastation caused by Hurricane Irma across the Caribbean.Gulf of THE BAHAMAS Monterrey Miami Mexico NASSAU 1,128,171 Swiss francs needed for urgent Culiacán TROPIC OF CANCER humanitarian support G r e LA HABANA a t TURKS AND CAICOS Tampico e UK 2,500 peopleMEXICO in desperate need of help r A Mérida Cancún CUBA n t i l l Guadalajara CIUDAD e s L DE MEXICO Santiago de Cuba DOMINICAN e s REPUBLIC Virgin Islands s Cayman I. HAITI PUERTO RICO UK e UK Sto. US r Snapshot JAMAICA DOMINGO BELIZE PORT-AU- ANTIGUA A KINGSTON AND BARBUDA n PRINCE ST KITS AND NEVIS Acapulco BELMOPAN Guadeloupe t Montserrat France i The Category 5 Hurricane Irma hit Antigua and Barbuda,GUATEMALA UK l HONDURAS DOMINICA l Anguilla, Montserrat, and Saint Kitts and NevisGUATEMALA with CARIBBEAN Martinique e France TEGUCIGALPA s SAINT LUCIA winds of more than 185 miles per hour on 6 September.S. SALVADOR SEA Netherlands ST VINCENT AND EL SALVADOR Antilles THE GRENADINES The hurricane has killed at least ten people across the NICARAGUA BARBADOS MANAGUA GRENADA Caribbean, and has destroyed or damaged 90% of all Maracaibo CARACAS PORT OF SPAIN SAN JOSÉ Cartagena TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO buildings in Barbuda. Barquisimeto 0 km 600 1200 1800 km COSTA RICA PANAMÁ Mérida PANAMA The survivors of this disaster face yet another threat – a GEORGETOWN Medellín VENEZUELA GUYANA second hurricane, Jose, is on its way. This EmergencySOUTH PARAMARIBO Appeal will not only help support the humanitarian SANTA FE PACIFIC OCEAN Cali DE BOGOTÁ SURINAM GUYANE response to Hurricane Irma, but also the preparations for Boa Vista FRANÇAISE Hurricane Jose. COLOMBIA EQUATOR EQUATOR ECUADOR QUITO Archipiélago de Colón Belém São Luis Ecuador Guayaquil Manaus Iquitos Fortaleza Teresina Natal João Pessoa 10 90% Trujillo 300 BRAZIL200 Recife Pôrto Velho people of buildings PERU families families Maceió reported dead on Barbuda in Antigua in Saint Kitts Aracaju LIMA destroyed or and Barbuda and Nevis Cuzco damaged Salvador need urgent support Key figures Key BOLIVIA Cuiabá Arequipa BRASÍLIA LA PAZ Goiânia Arica www.ifrc.org SUCRE Ilhas Martin Vaz Belo Horizonte Vitória Brazil Saving lives, changing minds. Iquique PARAGUAY Rio de Janeiro TROPIC OF CAPRICORN Antofagasta São Paulo Salta ASUNCIÓN Curitiba E Florianópolis Porto Alegre Córdoba Santa Fé Valparaíso L Mendoza Rosario Archipiélago URUGUAY Juan Fernández SANTIAGO Chile MONTEVIDEO BUENOS AIRES La Plata ARGENTINA I Mar del Plata SOUTH Bahía Blanca ATLANTIC OCEAN Puerto Montt H C Falkland Islands UK Estrecho de Magallanes Punta Arenas Isla Grande de Terra del Fuego Ushuaia South Georgia UK C n a p e H o r.
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