Overall Green alert Flood
in Australia

Event summary

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

GDACS ID FL 1000074
Death: 1
Displaced: 30000
Countries: Australia
From - To 27 Mar - 30 Mar

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Latest media headlines

Articles: 58 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

Cyclone Debbie flood claims fifth victimSun, 02 Apr 2017 02:45:00 +0200.

Cyclone Debbie claims fifth victim after man, 45, refused to leave his caravan in flood waters – as searches for three missing people continue Mark Austin, 45, was found dead in a caravan park in South Murwillumbah just after 1.30pm on Satu
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Cyclone Debbie claims fourth victim, men, 77 and 46Sat, 01 Apr 2017 12:01:00 +0200.

The body of 77-year-old man who went missing in Queensland floodwaters on Friday has died. Nelson Raebel, was last sighted at approximately 4:30pm near Eagleby Road, he never returned home after failing to meet his friend. Sadly, he was fou
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Alert: Brisbane may also face floodingFri, 31 Mar 2017 23:47:00 +0200.

BEENLEIGH (Australia) • A woman's body was found and tens of thousands of people were evacuated from towns in two Australian states yesterday after torrential rain caused by a powerful tropical cyclone lashed the region. Category four Cyclo
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Family pitches in after Bundamba home floodsFri, 31 Mar 2017 21:07:00 +0200.

NATURAL disasters often bring out the best in people so the QT is delighted to introduce an Ipswich family to be proud of. Greg and Barbara Bower are on a trip around Australia so when flood waters struck their two-storey Videroni St home i
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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),