Overall Green alert Flood for India
in India

Event summary

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

GDACS ID FL 1100611
Death: 16
Displaced: 214
Countries: India
From - To 12 Sep - 22 Sep

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Karnataka, India, September 2020Almost 450mm of rain in 24 hours fell in Udupi, Karnataka, 19-20 September 2020. Local media said several rivers broke their banks damaging at least 4 bridges. National Disaster Response Force, fire and emergency services department rescued over 130 people.Sat 19 Sep 2020FloodList provided by Copernicus GLOFAS
Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 71 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

IMD warns of heavy rain in Assam & MeghalayaThu, 01 Oct 2020 08:45:00 +0200.

GUWAHATI: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has warned of heavy rainfall in Assam and Meghalaya from Wednesday till October 5 by issuing an “yellow” alert, which may deteriorate the flood situation in Assam. At present, over 2.83 la
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STUDENT COLLECTIVES AS RELIEF MEDIATION TO THE PERILS OF NATURAL DISAS ... Wed, 30 Sep 2020 22:22:00 +0200.

‘The year is 2020. The tree in front of my house is bent on crashing upon the family car. It’s raining cats and dogs. Suddenly, there’s a blackout and there’s water seeping in from a broken window pane. The wind too isn’t very keen on slowi
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Flooding worsens further in northSun, 27 Sep 2020 20:43:00 +0200.

The overall flood situation has worsened further in the northern region as the water level of the Upper Meghna Basin in the northeastern region of the country is increasing gradually. Hundreds of flood victims have been leading a miserable
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Virus, drought, flood hit 51M folkSun, 27 Sep 2020 05:27:00 +0200.

NEW YORK: At least 51.6 million people worldwide have been affected by floods, droughts or storms and the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), showed the news analysis published Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) by the International Federation
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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), DesInventar (4), WMO (1), INFORM (2),