Overall Green alert Flood
in Syria

Event summary

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

GDACS ID FL 1101894
Death: 0
Displaced: -
Countries: Syria
From - To 16 Mar - 18 Mar

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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

SYRIA: Children Terrified Of Sleeping In Tents As Storms And Flooding .. 3/21/2023 12:00:00 AM.

More than 4,000 families in northern Syria have been affected by the flooding, which has caused extensive damage, particularly in camps for internally displaced people (IDP). At least 375 tents sheltering families have been destroyed or lef
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SYRIA: Children terrified of sleeping in tents as storms and flooding .. 3/20/2023 10:30:00 PM.

Children playing and walking through flood water and mud in a camp for internally displaced people in Idlib, Syria [Hurras Network/ Save the Children] Amman, 20 March 2023: Torrential rainfall and flooding have damaged camps and villages ac
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Floods destroy homes of quake survivors in northwestern Syria 3/20/2023 8:43:00 PM.

Damascus, March 20 (RHC)-- Dozens of camps for displaced people in northwestern Syria have been damaged by flooding after a heavy storm hit the region late on Saturday. Torrential rain in the western countryside of Idlib province damaged hu
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Syria: Children terrified of sleeping in tents as storms and flooding .. 3/20/2023 5:17:00 PM.

Amman, 20 March 2023: Torrential rainfall and flooding have damaged camps and villages across earthquake affected areas of northern Syria, with children too scared to sleep in tents, Save the Children warned today. More than 4,000 families
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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 (37), (2), NASA (4), DesInventar (1), INFORM (2),