Overall Orange Flood for Nigeria in Nigeria from 27 Aug 2022 01:00 UTC to 03 Sep 2022 01:00 UTC

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Overall Orange Flood for Nigeria

in Nigeria

Event summary

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

GDACS ID	FL 1101620
Death:	135
Displaced:	-
Countries:	Nigeria
From - To	27 Aug - 03 Sep

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Virtual OSOCC

Meteo assessment

Satellite products

Analytical products

Flood in Nigeria - EC/ECHO daily mapThu, 01 Sep 2022 17:55

A new EC/ECHO daily map is now available

Kwara State, Nigeria, September 2022On 26 September local media in Nigeria, quoting official sources, reported 7 fatalities and 2,800 people were affected after floods in different parts of Kwara State, Nigeria. Patigi (also Pategi) Local Government Area situated on the Niger river was the worst affected. Homes and wide areas of farmland were damaged. Note: Reports did not specify dates. However other areas of the country saw severe flooding in August and September 2022 and it is therefore assumed the flooding in Kwara occurred at a similar time.Tue 27 Sep 2022Provided by Copernicus EMS GloFAS

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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Imminent flooding 9/1/2022 2:19:00 AM.

Buhari queries governors on funds as flood destroys lives 8/24/2022 10:47:00 AM.

Buhari queries governors on funds as flood kills Nigerians, destroys p.. 8/24/2022 7:03:00 AM.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Analytical products

Daily Maps: ECHO Daily Map of 01 September 2022

01/Sep/2022 17:55 UTC

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (36), NASA (3), WMO (1), INFORM (2), (1),

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