Overall Green alert Flood
in New Zealand

Event summary

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

GDACS ID FL 4253
Death: 1
Displaced: 100
Countries: New Zealand
From - To 13 May - 21 May

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Latest media headlines

Articles: 9 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

New wave of bad weather hits roads, propertiesFri, 15 May 2015 19:51:00 +0200.

Firefighters and police were responding to reports of surface flooding in and around Levin last night, just a day after a disastrous deluge in Wellington. The Fire Service sent trucks to Okarito and Beechwood Aves in the Horowhenua town las
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Eighty-year-old flooding victim named as Dr Paul HillFri, 15 May 2015 07:58:00 +0200.

Paul Hill, whose body was found when Wellington flood waters began to subside, was anything but a frail 80-year-old. As downpours caused havoc around the Wellington region on Thursday, Hill's car was found submerged near a boat ramp at Slad
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Wellington flood, Mt Maunganui tornado insurance claims rush inFri, 15 May 2015 04:56:00 +0200.

Insurance claims are starting to come in from Thursday's floods and tornadoes, but Insurance Council CEO Tim Grafton says it will take time for the full damage to be assessed. "It takes some weeks for us to get the numbers of claims and cos
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Wellington region cleans up after flood chaosFri, 15 May 2015 01:56:00 +0200.

Those that couldn't saw their cars washed to the end of the road, along with large logs. "It was like a raging torrent down here." Anything lying on the ground was "pretty well stuffed", he said. Kapiti Coast District Council said an electr
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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),