Overall Green alert Flood for Mexico
in Mexico

Event summary

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

GDACS ID FL 1100620
Death: 2
Displaced: -
Countries: Mexico
From - To 15 Sep - 21 Sep

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Oaxaca, Mexico, September 2020Heavy rainfall from 15 September triggered flooding and landslides in parts of Oaxaca state, southwest Mexico, in particular in the Papaloapan Region. Fatalities were reported in San Agustin Chayuco and San Juan Comaltepec municipalities.Tue 15 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: 167 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Climate change poses a growing threat to hundreds of hazardous waste S ... Thu, 24 Sep 2020 17:57:00 +0200.

Those questions highlight the perils posed by the nation’s industrial wastelands as they are increasingly battered by extreme weather worsened by climate change. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) warned in a report last year that F
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"Zombie" storm regains strength in bizarre 2020 seasonThu, 24 Sep 2020 16:38:00 +0200.

Storms have popped up in this record-breaking hurricane season at such a breakneck pace that and were forced to move on the Greek alphabet. But one of the storms with a traditional name — Paulette — has come back to life more than a week af
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Climate change poses a growing threat to hundreds of hazardous waste S ... Thu, 24 Sep 2020 14:26:00 +0200.

Those questions highlight the perils posed by the nation’s industrial wastelands as they are increasingly battered by extreme weather worsened by climate change. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) warned in a report last year that F
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Hurricane CenterThu, 24 Sep 2020 03:57:00 +0200.

Interstate 10 on- and off-ramps in LaPlace were closed to drivers Tuesday, as officials in St. John the Baptist Parish and other coastal communities across the region continued to grapple with the affects of Tropical Depression Beta. South
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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 (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2),