Overall Green alert Flood
in Sri Lanka

Event summary

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

GDACS ID FL 4018
Death: 52
Displaced: 56747
Countries: Sri Lanka
From - To 08 Jan - 17 Jan

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Latest media headlines

Articles: 10 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Subsidizing starvationTue, 15 Jan 2013 22:32:00 +0100.

In the wake of Haiti's devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake exactly three years ago, former U.S. President Bill Clinton issued an unusual and now infamous apology. Calling his subsidies to American rice farmers in the 1990s a mistake becaus
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Philippines (the): Asia-Pacific region 1 - 7 January, 2013 - Natural d ... Mon, 07 Jan 2013 12:34:00 +0100.

Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: Bangladesh, Fiji, India, Malaysia, Philippines (the), Samoa, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Thailand Philippines - TC Bopha (Pablo) struck the southern Philippines about 5
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Sri Lanka: Between Drought and Floods – A Year of Extremes in Sri Lank ... Mon, 31 Dec 2012 06:55:00 +0100.

Source: Inter Press Service Country: Sri Lanka By Amantha Perera UDAWALAWE, Sri Lanka, Dec 30 2012 (IPS) - Wild elephants are usually the primary attraction in the remote shrub jungles of Udawalawe, about 180 kilometres southeast of Sri Lan
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Between Drought and Floods – A Year of Extremes in Sri LankaSun, 30 Dec 2012 15:42:00 +0100.

Wild elephants are usually the primary attraction in the remote shrub jungles of Udawalawe, about 180 kilometres southeast of Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo. But this Christmas season, the massive Udawalawe dam stole the limelight from the lum
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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