Overall Green alert Flood
in Madagascar

Event summary

This flood can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID FL 1000176
Glide number: 2018-000023
Death: 17
Displaced: 6200
Countries: Madagascar
From - To 15 Mar - 21 Mar

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Latest media headlines

Articles: 2 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Madagascar: Tropical Storm Eliakim - Mar 2018Fri, 16 Mar 2018 17:27:00 +0100.

Severe Tropical Storm Eliakim made landfall in the Masoala Peninsula on 16 March at 10 a.m. local time. The weather system is expected to make a second landfall in the district of Mananara Nord in the afternoon of 16 March. Eliakim is expec
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World: Global Weather Hazards Summary - March 16 - 22, 2018Thu, 15 Mar 2018 23:48:00 +0100.

Drought continues in Southern Africa, while parts of Madagascar and Kenya are on flood watch Due to poor rainfall since November western Namibia is in a severe drought. Conditions may worsen as limited rain is forecast next week. In southwe
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (36), NASA (7), INFORM (1), (1),