Overall Green alert Flood
in Brazil

Event summary

This flood can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID FL 1102437
Death: 18
Displaced: 726
Countries: Brazil
From - To 13 Jan - 31 Jan

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Paraná State, Brazil, Late January 2024A long period of heavy rain caused flooding and damages in parts of Paraná State, Brazil, in late January 2024.Thu 1 Feb 2024FloodList 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.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 67 | About casualties: 35 | Last hour: 0

Brazil dam claim ‘still not set out with specific particularity’, judg ... 2024-02-01T14:22+0100.

The latest case management hearing in the multi-billion-pound lawsuit against global mining giant BHP, over a dam collapse that led to one of Brazil’s worst environmental disasters, saw an application to amend re-amended particulars of clai
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‘Unfair competition’: French farmers up in arms over EU free-trade agr ... 2024-01-31T18:30+0100.

French farming unions are taking aim at the European Union’s free-trade agreements, which they say open the door to unfair competition from products arriving from overseas. At a time when the EU is urging farmers to adopt more sustainable –
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Maltempo Brasile: tre morti nel sud e nord-est2024-01-30T10:53+0100.

Nel Brasile , nelle ultime 24 ore, il maltempo ha causato la perdita di tre vite umane, tra il sud e il nord-est del paese. A Sao Pedro de Alcantara, vicino a Florianopolis, nel sud del Brasile, un giovane di 17 anni è annegato mentre si tr
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Octopus to build own electricity pylons in challenge to National Grid2024-01-25T13:59+0100.

Household energy supplier Octopus is seeking to take on the National Grid by building its own electricity pylons, as frustration grows at the pace of the network’s expansion. Greg Jackson, chief executive of Octopus, said the business has h
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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 (4), WMO (1), INFORM (2),