Overall Green alert Flood for Malaysia
in Malaysia

Event summary

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

GDACS ID FL 1100725
Death: 0
Displaced: 5654
Countries: Malaysia
From - To 11 Jan - 11 Jan

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Sabah, Malaysia, January 2021Floods in several districts of Sabah State in Malaysia prompted evacuations on 11 January 2021.Mon 11 Jan 2021FloodList provided by Copernicus GLOFAS
Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 12 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

When forest can no longer prevent floods...Mon, 11 Jan 2021 02:23:00 +0100.

In fact, on social media, even netizens conclude that the floods, especially in Pahang, is the result of humans themselves destroying nature for the sake of development and profit. This is because of the uncontrolled forest clearing and log
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Environmental Disasters In December 2020Sat, 02 Jan 2021 10:38:00 +0100.

The last month of 2020 saw a host of environmental disasters, including floods in Malaysia and Thailand, a volcanic eruption that displaced hundreds in Indonesia, landslides in Canada and Norway, and storms in Nigeria. Here is a timeline co
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Environmental disasters in December 2020Sat, 02 Jan 2021 10:32:00 +0100.

ANKARA The last month of 2020 saw a host of environmental disasters, including floods in Malaysia and Thailand, a volcanic eruption that displaced hundreds in Indonesia, landslides in Canada and Norway, and storms in Nigeria. Here is a time
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Environmental disasters across world in 2020Sun, 20 Dec 2020 15:16:00 +0100.

ANKARA. The year 2020 saw many environmental disasters that have fueled climate change and vice versa across the world, including tropical storms, hurricanes, landslides, and deadly floodings caused by heavy rains. Thousands of people have
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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 (36), (2), NASA (7), WMO (1), INFORM (2),