Nicaragua’s has many types of hazards that impact the country heavily. Most of the dangerous hazards happen near or on the coast which is neighbors with the ring of fire. In addition to the location of Nicaragua impacting all of these hazards climate change has increased many of those hazards becoming uncontrollable for the people to deal with. Most commonly the rainfall is what impacts Nicaragua’s coast.

Recently Nicaragua’s coast was hit with a “category 2 storm on the five-point Saffir-Simpson scale when it hit in October 2016” called Hurricane Otto (reliefweb.int) all of the rain from this storm created many floods in various locations of the coast. All of this rainfall and flooding damaged many peoples homes and many had to evacuate and leave all of their belongings behind. On a positive note out of “10,143 people and the 69 coastal communities” (relief web.int) no person was found dead no person went missing and there were no injuries.

Nicaragua and it’s community is opening their doors from many shelters in the country for the people to receive basic necessities. In addition Erika Aldana who is a coordinator from non governmental international organization global communities climate change project has partnered with the “civil and military authorities, have organised conferences, discussion forums and environmental awareness campaigns, in addition to prevention and coastal community rescue plans in the entire South Caribbean Region”(reliefweb.int).