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Detailed explanation-1: -Fiona: September 12-24, 2022 The hurricane did not make direct landfall. On September 20th, 2022 at 5:00 pm it had the shortest distance at about 313 km north of Saint-Louis du Nord in North-West.

Detailed explanation-2: -On August 14, 2021, the Grand Sud departments of Haiti were hit hard by an earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale. More than 2, 200 people died and nearly 13, 000 were injured. Several infrastructures and 130, 000 houses collapsed.

Detailed explanation-3: -No Category 5 hurricanes have hit Haiti since 1851. The most recent Category 3 hurricane to hit Haiti was Hurricane David of 1979, which crossed northern Haiti as a Category 3 hurricane with 115 mph winds after hitting the Dominican Republic as a Category 5 hurricane with 170 mph winds.

Detailed explanation-4: -The 2022 North Indian Ocean cyclone season was an event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation. It was an above-average season in terms of depressions and average in terms of deep depressions, but slightly below-average in terms of cyclonic storms.