Tropical Storm Bret was the deadliest natural disaster in Venezuela since the 1967 Caracas earthquake . The third tropical cyclone of 1993 Atlantic hurricane season , Bret formed on August 4 from a westward-moving , African tropical wave . Bret would later peak as a 60 mph ( 95 km/h ) tropical storm as it neared Trinidad . It took an extremely southerly course through the Caribbean , passing over the coasts of Venezuela and Colombia . High terrain in the northern parts of those countries severely disrupted the circulation of the storm , and Bret had weakened to a tropical depression before emerging over the extreme southwestern Caribbean Sea . There , it restrengthened to a tropical storm and made landfall in Nicaragua on August 10 , dissipating soon after . Bret 's remnants reached the Pacific Ocean , where they ultimately became Hurricane Greg
1967 Caracas earthquake
1967 Caracas earthquake
Tropical Storm Bret (1993)