Overall Green alert Flood for Australia
in Australia

Event summary

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

GDACS ID FL 1101408
Death: 0
Displaced: -
Countries: Australia
From - To 09 May - 11 May

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Queensland, Australia, May 2022Heavy rain fell in Queensland, Australia, from 09 April. Some flooding was reported and State Emergency Services received 39 requests for assistance 09 to 10 April. One person was rescued from floods in Mount Isa. Further heavy rainfall was expected and warnings were in place.Tue 10 May 2022FloodList provided by Copernicus GLOFAS
Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

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Latest media headlines

Articles: 42 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Should we encourage people to rescue their neighbours in private boats ... 2022-05-13T23:14+0200.

There is an age-old question that arises during the real-time management of natural disasters: to what extent should responses be in the hands of trained personnel in emergency management agencies, and to what extent can we rely on the effo
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Should we encourage people to rescue their neighbours in private boats ... 2022-05-13T23:14+0200.

This question came to the fore during the massive flood at Lismore from February 28 to March 1. That flood was not only the biggest seen in the city's 170-year history, it reached far, far higher than anybody there had ever seen. The previo
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Should we encourage people to rescue their neighbours in private boats ... 2022-05-13T22:12+0200.

This question came to the fore during the massive flood at Lismore from February 28 to March 1. That flood was not only the biggest seen in the city's 170-year history, it reached far, far higher than anybody there had ever seen. The previo
...(more)
Should we encourage people to rescue their neighbours in private boats ... 2022-05-13T21:50+0200.

This question came to the fore during the massive flood at Lismore from February 28 to March 1. That flood was not only the biggest seen in the city's 170-year history, it reached far, far higher than anybody there had ever seen. The previo
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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),