Overall Green Flood in China from 25 Jul 2012 00:00 UTC to 30 Jul 2012 23:59 UTC

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Overall Green Flood

in China

Event summary

Flood can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID	FL 3958
Death:	0
Displaced:	40000
Countries:	China
From - To	25 Jul - 30 Jul

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Latest media headlines

Twin typhoons set to batter mainland 8/3/2012 12:05:00 AM.

The first of two typhoons struck the east coast last night, with another set to make landfall early today, threatening devastation inland.

Typhoon Saola: Flooding and landslides kill five and leave thousands h.. 8/2/2012 11:18:00 PM.

The footage shows the startling moment Typhoon Saola claimed a life in the city of Taipei. The military helped more than 1,000 people flee from less-populated regions.

Typhoon rain floods Taiwan 8/2/2012 10:22:00 PM.

TAIPEI: A typhoon inched across northern Taiwan today after already dumping up to five feet of rain that has flooded farmland, swollen rivers and paralysed life on much of the densely populated island of 23 million people. Typhoon Saola wea

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Philippine flood death toll climbs to 23 8/2/2012 8:03:00 PM.

Rescuers deployed rubber boats while doctors fanned across cramped evacuation centers in the Philippines as the death toll from five days of flooding reached 23 yesterday, officials said. Large farming towns north of the capital, Manila, as

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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