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 4244
Death: 4
Displaced: 1000
Countries: Australia
From - To 20 Apr - 28 Apr

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Latest media headlines

Articles: 42 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Engineers warn east coast storms point to future flooding, erosion ris ... Sat, 02 May 2015 03:19:00 +0200.

Associate Professor James Ball is a stormwater expert who has spent decades modelling catchments and urban infrastructure around the world. He said the devastation of an aged care facility in Dungog in the Hunter Valley, where three elderly
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Roads cut, planes delayed by super storm lashing south-east QueenslandFri, 01 May 2015 10:44:00 +0200.

Severe and dangerous storms are lashing an already drenched southern Queensland as an east coast low bears south towards northern New South Wales. The wild weather has soaked communities with up to 100 millimetres of rain in an hour, catchi
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Severe storms rolling across southern Queensland; New South Wales brac ... Fri, 01 May 2015 10:04:00 +0200.

Severe and dangerous storms are lashing an already drenched southern Queensland as an east coast low bears south towards northern New South Wales. The wild weather has soaked communities with up to 100 millimetres of rain in an hour, catchi
...(more)
Severe storms to roll across southern Queensland; New South Wales brac ... Fri, 01 May 2015 08:34:00 +0200.

The wild weather has soaked communities with up to 100 millimetres of rain in an hour, catching people off guard and causing dangerous traffic conditions. Paramedics were called to house in Burpengary, north of Brisbane, amid reports a 16-y
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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), NASA (7), INFORM (1), (1),