Overall Green alert Flood for Sri Lanka
in Sri Lanka

Event summary

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

GDACS ID FL 1101565
Death: 3
Displaced: 2374
Countries: Sri Lanka
From - To 01 Aug - 03 Aug

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Sri Lanka, August 2022Heavy rain since the start of August caused flooding and landslides in Sri Lanka. As of 03 August at least 3 people had lost their lives, 4 were missing, 12,289 were affected and 2,374 displaced.Wed 3 Aug 2022FloodList provided by Copernicus GLOFAS
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 7 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

CORVI Risk Profile: Western Province, Sri Lanka2022-08-04T18:25+0200.

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Giornata mondiale della prevenzione degli annegamenti, perché è import ... 2022-07-25T14:56+0200.

Nel mondo l’ annegamento , un fenomeno in continuo aumento, è la terza causa di morte per evento traumatico non intenzionale. Le persone a maggior rischio di annegamento sono i bambini e coloro i quali lavorano in acqua o sono costretti ad
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World News | Nine Killed, 7 Injured as Mountain Collapses in China's G ... 2022-07-23T17:46+0200.

Lanzhou [China], June 23 (ANI): Nine people were killed and seven others were injured after a mountain collapsed in northwest China's Gansu Province on Saturday. The incident took place at 11.15 a.m. in Jingtai County of Baiyin City, Xinhua
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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),