Overall Green alert Flood
in Russia

Event summary

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

GDACS ID FL 4012
Death: 4
Displaced: 1500
Countries: Russia
From - To 06 Jan - 10 Jan

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Latest media headlines

Articles: 6 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Putin Visits Flood-Ravaged KrymskFri, 11 Jan 2013 16:29:00 +0100.

KRYMSK, January 11 (RIA Novosti) – President Vladimir Putin traveled on Friday to a flood-ravaged city in southern Russia whose citizens are still recovering from the destruction wrought by a record-setting flood last summer. Putin promised
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New York Times: Heat, flood or icy cold, extreme weather rages worldwi ... Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:55:00 +0100.

WORCESTER, England » Britons may remember 2012 as the year the weather spun off its rails in a chaotic concoction of drought, deluge and flooding, but the unpredictability of it all turns out to have been all too predictable: Around the wor
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Are we ready for the next superstorm?Sat, 05 Jan 2013 17:44:00 +0100.

They hover above our heads, zooming in and taking pictures. The data collected by these powerful satellites have helped save countless lives by allowing meteorologists to warn people about dangerous storms. But as budgets shrink, aging sate
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The era of the SuperstormFri, 04 Jan 2013 22:56:00 +0100.

After Hurricane Katrina slammed into the U.S. Gulf Coast in 2005 -- killing 1,800 people and inflicting $100 billion in damage -- Congress said never again. Federal lawmakers spent $14.5 billion, mostly federal funds, to build a fortress ar
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (36), (2), NASA (7), INFORM (2),