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

Updated: this report is based on update number 250.

• Flood Magnitude 4.88
• from 03/08/2012 00:00 UTC to 06/08/2012 23:59 UTC
• 2 killed and 800000 displaced

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Articles: 128 | About casualties: 22 | Last hour: 0

Photos: A flooded Philippines
Thu, 09 Aug 2012 20:37:00 +0200   cnn (en)

Thursday brought no break from the rain for nearly 2 million people in the Philippines, where a monsoon has caused heavy flooding, evacuations, and at least 19 deaths, disaster officials said.

People and organisations: Benigno Aquino, Jr  Storm Ketsana  Tropical Storm Washi  Tropical Storm Ketsana  National Disaster Risk Reduction  Storm Washi 

Haikui affects 6 mln people, destroys thousands of houses
Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:51:00 +0200   xinhuanet_en (en)

BEIJING, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- More than 6 million people had been affected by Typhoon Haikui in four provinces as of 8 a.m. Thursday, the country's flood control authority said. Typhoon Haikui, which made landfall early Wednesday morning in east China's Zhejiang province, has destroyed 7,561 houses....

People and organisations: Xinhua News Agency 

Tropical storm Haikui brings downpours, gales to Anhui
Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:51:00 +0200   xinhuanet_en (en)

HEFEI, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- Typhoon Haikui, which was downgraded to a severe tropical storm as of 4 p.m. Wednesday, slammed east China's Anhui province Wednesday night. Haikui, which made landfall in the coastal province of Zhejiang at 3:20 a.m. Wednesday, has brought heavy downpours to east China and left three people dead as of Thursday.

People and organisations: Xinhua News Agency 

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