Overall Green alert Flood
in Brazil

Event summary

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

GDACS ID FL 1000087
Death: 0
Displaced: 30000
Countries: Brazil
From - To 28 May - 30 May

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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 22 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

World: Integrated Flood Management Tools Series - Community-based Floo ... Tue, 30 May 2017 18:09:00 +0200.

Community participation has been – at least in principle – for more than 30 years at the core of any development policy and emergency intervention involving people, based on the assumption that a “top-down” approach is not adequate for its
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30.000 personas fueron evacuadas por lluviasTue, 30 May 2017 09:44:00 +0200.

En estado brasileño 30.000 personas fueron evacuadas por lluvias. • Las autoridades nacionales y locales del Brasil se dirigieron al lugar de la inundación para evaluar la situación del desastre natural en Pernambuco. Río de Janeiro.- Al m
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Seven dead, 48,000 displaced in north Brazil due to floodTue, 30 May 2017 07:26:00 +0200.

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 29 (Xinhua) -- Seven people have died and 48,000 others displaced after heavy flood hit northern Brazil, authorities announced Monday. In the state of Pernambuco which was most affected, two people died,over 44,000 were
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¿Por qué la obsesión de Latinoamérica por las represas?Tue, 23 May 2017 12:28:00 +0200.

Durante abril de 2014, las lluvias fueron monumentales. Para principios de mayo, los operadores de la represa de 219 MW Cachoeira Caldeirão, que estaba construyéndose en el remoto estado de Amapá en Brasil, sabían que los niveles del río Ar
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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),