Overall Green Flood alert in South Africa from 01 Mar 2014 00:00 UTC to 30 Mar 2014 23:59 UTC

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Overall Green alert Flood

in South Africa

Event summary

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

GDACS ID	FL 4131
Glide number:	FL-2014-000038-ZAF
Death:	37
Displaced:	3528
Countries:	South Africa
From - To	01 Mar - 30 Mar

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

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