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Coral Bleaching - Galapagos

Corals around Galapagos have experienced elevated temperatures 48 times in the past 41 years.

  1. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 39.30 C on 15-Apr-1998
  2. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 39.16 C on 21-Apr-1998
  3. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 39.15 C on 07-Apr-1998
  4. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 39.00 C on 10-Apr-1998
  5. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 38.70 C on 04-May-1998
  6. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 37.65 C on 27-Mar-1998
  7. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 25.77 C on 07-Feb-1998
  8. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 22.76 C on 14-May-1992
  9. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 22.69 C on 11-May-1992
  10. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 22.18 C on 26-Apr-1987
  11. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 21.18 C on 09-May-2023
  12. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 20.66 C on 14-Jun-2023
  13. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 20.62 C on 10-Jun-2023
  14. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 20.54 C on 10-May-1987
  15. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 17.19 C on 18-Apr-2024
  16. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 16.99 C on 27-May-2015
  17. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 16.98 C on 06-Jun-2015
  18. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 16.79 C on 05-Apr-2024
  19. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 16.64 C on 20-Apr-2017
  20. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 16.33 C on 12-Jun-1997
  21. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 16.31 C on 21-May-1997
  22. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 16.29 C on 08-Jun-1997
  23. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 16.26 C on 14-May-1997
  24. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 16.17 C on 19-May-1997
  25. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 16.13 C on 04-May-2012
  26. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 16.06 C on 30-May-1997
  27. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 16.02 C on 04-Jun-1997
  28. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 15.11 C on 02-May-2011
  29. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 14.37 C on 22-Apr-2016
  30. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 13.49 C on 01-Jul-1997
  31. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 12.10 C on 22-Apr-2010
  32. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 11.15 C on 07-May-2008
  33. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 10.92 C on 26-Mar-2016
  34. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 10.92 C on 28-Mar-2016
  35. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 10.50 C on 09-May-2002
  36. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 10.49 C on 13-May-1993
  37. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 10.29 C on 09-Mar-2016
  38. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 9.12 C on 27-Apr-2020
  39. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 8.41 C on 06-May-2022
  40. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 8.32 C on 27-Apr-2019
  41. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 6.82 C on 02-Aug-1997
  42. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 6.42 C on 29-Aug-2023
  43. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 5.70 C on 16-Apr-1991
  44. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 5.67 C on 01-May-2013
  45. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.83 C on 10-May-1986
  46. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.71 C on 23-Apr-2004
  47. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.66 C on 24-Apr-2021
  48. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.01 C on 25-Apr-2014

The ©Cumulative Damage Index caused by coral bleaching events (days when the DHW > 1C) over the past 40 years is 5229.

For information about why elevated temperatures are so damaging to corals, go to Coral Bleaching.

The record of Degree Heating Weeks (DHW) over the past 40 years

The ©Cumulative Damage Index caused by coral bleaching events (days exceeding DHW > 1) over the past 40 years

The data on this page were last updated on 3 May 2024. The next update is scheduled for 1 June 2024.