Overall Green alert Flood for Brazil
in Brazil

Event summary

Flood Brazil can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID FL 1100813
Death: 0
Displaced: -
Countries: Brazil
From - To 05 Apr - 25 Apr

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Pará, Brazil, April 2021Authorities in the municipality of Oriximiná in the state of Pará, northern Brazil, declared an emergency on 22 April after severe flooding from the overflowing Trombetas River. The municipal government said flooding approximately 14,020 people are directly affected, based on 3,505 families. Homes, streets, businesses, public buildings and infrastructure suffered damage in the city of Oriximiná. Surrounding rural areas also saw some flooding, with homes, schools, livestock and crops suffering damages.Sun 25 Apr 2021FloodList provided by Copernicus GLOFAS
Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

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Articles: 5 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Three Gorges Dam invites visitors to show achievementsSun, 25 Apr 2021 04:21:00 +0200.

The world's largest hydropower project, the Three Gorges Dam, opened its doors on Saturday to welcome the public for a visit to illustrate its achievements in producing clean energy, preventing floods and ecological conservation. Engineers
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Three Gorges Dam invites visitors to show achievementsSat, 24 Apr 2021 17:54:00 +0200.

The open day of the Three Gorges Dam The world's largest hydropower project, the Three Gorges Dam, opened its doors on Saturday to welcome the public for a visit to illustrate its achievements in producing clean energy, preventing floods an
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Working on waterFri, 23 Apr 2021 03:17:00 +0200.

If David Feldman has his way, you could soon be working with water policy managers and scientists to allocate California’s precious liquid resource. Feldman, chair of planning, policy & design, studies how communities and jurisdictions deal
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Podcast: What Tree Rings Can Tell Us About the U.S. Civil WarTue, 30 Mar 2021 14:42:00 +0200.

Climate change–induced drought may have had an influence on the Civil War. Max Torbenson, here coring a bristlecone pine in central Colorado, studies how tree rings can shed light on the influence of climate change on wildlife and humans. C
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (36), (2), NASA (7), WMO (1), INFORM (2),