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 1101416
Death: 0
Displaced: 209
Countries: Sri Lanka
From - To 13 May - 15 May

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Sri Lanka, Mid-May 2022Sri Lanka’s Disaster Management Center (DMC) reported strong winds, lightning and heavy rain in the country from 13 May 2022. The heavy rain caused some material damages, as well as flooding and landslide risk in Rathnapura and Kalutara districts. As of 16 May, DMC reported 7,337 people affected and 203 homes damaged. Eight evacuation centres were set up in Rathnapura division, housing 209 people as of 16 May.Mon 16 May 2022FloodList provided by Copernicus GLOFAS
Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 3 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Climate change will have opposite effects on the frequency of strong tropical cyclones along the western and eastern coasts of India by 2050. The frequency will reduce in the Bay of Bengal, traditionally known for its powerful storms, while
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Arroz chileno supera en calidad y sustentabilidad a los importados2022-04-27T18:24+0200.

Ante productores del Maule y Ñuble, Karla Cordero y directivos del Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura, IICA, destacaron necesidad de seguir impulsando la producción nacional de arroz que pronto contará con nuevas te
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Arroz chileno supera en calidad y sustentabilidad a los importados sos ... 2022-04-25T15:21+0200.

“Los alimentos desarrollados con genética local, son los que llegan con todos los requerimientos nutricionales a los consumidores nacionales”, señaló la investigadora Karla Cordero, tras dos jornadas de capacitación a productores arroceros
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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),