Overall Green alert Flood for Vietnam
in Vietnam

Event summary

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

GDACS ID FL 1100829
Death: 3
Displaced: -
Countries: Vietnam
From - To 16 Apr - 18 Apr

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Northern Vietnam, April 2021Flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains swept parts of Lao Cai Province, northern Vietnam, on 17 April 2021. 36 homes were damaged, 3 people died. 1 home was also damaged in Ha Giang.Sun 18 Apr 2021FloodList provided by Copernicus GLOFAS
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 41 | About casualties: 40 | Last hour: 0

MIL-OSI Asia-Pac: PM requests efforts to deal with floods in northern ... Sun, 18 Apr 2021 08:56:00 +0200.

Source: Socialist Republic of Vietnam. In the dispatch to the People’s Committees of the six northern mountainous provinces of Lai Chau, Yen Bai, Son La, Ha Giang and Tuyen Quang, the Central Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Control,
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8 tornadoes hit Alabama, killing at least 5, weather service reportsSat, 27 Mar 2021 04:22:00 +0100.

This story was updated on Friday, March 26, 2021, at 2:48 p.m. with additional information. A string of deadly tornadoes roared through Alabama on Thursday, toppling trees, demolishing homes and knocking out power to thousands, part of a br
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Tornadoes Kill Five In Southeastern United StatesFri, 26 Mar 2021 12:37:00 +0100.

A series of tornadoes generated by a previous “supercell” of storms hit Alabama on Thursday and subsequently made its way to Georgia early Friday, killing at least five amid the ruins of shattered homes, downed trees and seriously damaged b
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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),