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| FL-2013-000030-COL
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Flood |
Colombia |
Las fuertes lluvias que se han presentado en el departamento del Choc? desde el pasado viernes mantienen en emergencia a tres municipios. Las autoridades calculan que cerca de cuatro mil familias resultaron afectadas a causa de los desbordamientos de los r?os Taman?, H?bita, Baud? e Ingar?. |
| FF-2013-000029-SRB
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Flash Flood |
Serbia |
Due to the heavy rain during the last two days several municipalities in Kosovo have been flooded with the villages around. The affected municipalities are Klina/Klina Skenderaj/Srbica, Peja/Pec, Istog/Istok, Kamenice/Kamenica, Gjakova/Djakovica, and Mitrovica/Mitrovice. Some villages are in the rural and poorer part as well. The increased water levels in the rivers Drini I Bardhe, Klina, Bistrica, and Lushta, and have flooded the surrounding areas. |
| FL-2013-000028-NAM
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Flood |
Namibia |
The Zambezi river levels reached 6.31m on 11 March 2013 as compared to the normal levels at 4.21m.
The flooding caused damage to the homes, roads, dams, fields and destroyed livestock and livelihoods, with the majority of the houses in the flood plains inundated. The road networks have been cut off, making it difficult for the communities to access essential services such as clinics. Some of these clinics were also inundated and had to be closed. According to the findings of the rapid assessment led by the government, 4,000 families, including 4,527 children, are impacted by the floods, with up to 2,500 families already evacuated to different relocation camps as of 12 March 2013. |
| ST-2013-000027-CAF
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SEVERE LOCAL STORM |
Central African Republic |
On Sunday 4 March 2013, neighborhoods of the 3rd, 4th and 6th subdivisions of Central African Republic, were ravaged by violent winds. The towns of Bimbo and Bouar located some 9 and 450 km respectively from Bangui also experienced heavy rains accompanied by violent winds. |
| TC-2013-000026-PHL
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Tropical Cyclone |
Philippines |
Tropical Depression Shanshan, locally known as Crising, affected about 51,000 families (260,000 people) across 8 regions of the Philippines including areas still recovering from Bopha. In central Mindanao, heavy rains triggered flooding in several areas in North Cotabato province and 2,000 families (10,000 people) were evacuated to safer areas. |
| FF-2013-000025-SRB
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Flash Flood |
Serbia |
After heavy rainfalls accompanied with hail and thunder, which on Monday, February 25th, late in the afternoon affected Bujanovac, Vranje, Trgovi?te and the wider environment, flash floods hit Bujanovac municipality (a part of city called New Settlement, and the villages Oslare, Levosoje and Rakovac), in Pre?evo (the village called Train Station) at night and on the next day, Tuesday, February 26th , while in Vranje and in Trgovi?te the heavy precipitation caused a sudden increase in water levels in the local rivers.
In Bujanovac, about 60 houses were flooded and about 100 people (more than twenty families) evacuated, who have been put up in homes of their friends or relatives. In Pre?evo about 50 homes were flooded, without evacuation of vulnerable families, while in Trgovi?te an emergency situation has been declared.
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| FL-2013-000024-MKD
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Flood |
Macedonia |
The heavy rain falls that affected Macedonia in the previous days (23-26.02.2012) caused overflow of rivers from their river beds, damaging and overflowing few dams and caused numerous consequences on the infrastructure, agricultural fields and houses of the locals in few regions in the country.
At the moment, the most affected regions by the floods in Macedonia are; Kumanovo, Shtip, Sveti Nikole, Strumica, Valandovo, Ohrid, Probishtip and Kochani. |
| FL-2013-000023-ZMB
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Flood |
Zambia |
Since 17 January 2013, Zambia has experienced flooding due to heavy rainfall, which has affected the most parts of the country, with Mumbwa district in the Central province being the worst affected. The district has been experiencing above average rainfall, and reports for the past two years show that the water table has risen as a result of this. |
| TC-2013-000022-MDG
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Tropical Cyclone |
Madagascar |
Tropical Cyclone Haruna made landfall on the south-west coast of Madagascar on 22 Feb 2013. Heavy rains and winds ahead of the storm had started to affect the country on 18 Feb. As of 21 Feb, the government had reported five deaths, 5,506 affected people, 43 houses destroyed and 1,400 flooded. |
| EQ-2013-000021-COL
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Earthquake |
Colombia |
On 9 Feb 2013, a 6.9 earthquake shook the department of Nari?o, with an epicenter 186 km from the Ospina municipality, affecting 57 municipalities in Nari?o, Cauca and Valle del Cauca. At least 3,600 houses were damaged and almost 400 were destroyed. |
| FL-2013-000020-BOL
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Flood |
Bolivia |
As of 17 Feb 2013, the El Nino weather phenomenon had claimed the lives of 23 people since November 2012, which were killed by the overflowing of rivers, flooding and landslides in western and eastern Bolivia. Over 10,000 families were affected. |
| FL-2013-000019-PER
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Flood |
Peru |
Torrential rains starting on 8 Feb 2013 caused flooding and landslides in the Arequipa province of southern Peru. Five people were killed, 75 injured and 48,000 affected. 15 houses were destroyed and 4,000 damaged. The government declared a state of emergency. |
| CW-2013-000018-TJK
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Cold Wave |
Tajikistan |
Due to extremely low temperatures followed by a heavy snowfall, eleven villages (Kuhnakurgan, Modiyon, Chechtube, Rangkul, Chichekdeh, Karakul, Tokhtamish, Shaimok, Alichur, Bashgunbez, Bulunkul) and Murgab, the district administrative centre, have been cut off from the rest of the country in the remotest area of Tajikistan ? Murgab District in the mountainous area of Tajikistan. |
| FL-2013-000017-PNG
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Flood |
Papua New Guinea |
Continuous rains have caused severe flooding and landslide in some areas of throughout the country leaving people most vulnerable. |
| TS-2013-000015-SLB
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Tsunami |
Solomon Islands |
An earthquake of magnitude 8M and depth 28.7km occurred on 06/02/2013 01:12 UTC, affecting about 17000 people within 100km. The earthquake caused a tsunami with a maximum wave height of 2.0m (calculated) in Nemboe, Solomon Islands. This estimated arrival time is 06 Feb 2013 01:14 UTC. |
| TC-2013-000014-AUS
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Tropical Cyclone |
Australia |
Tropical Cyclone Oswald crossed the north-east coast of Australia on 21 January 2013, dumping torrential rain on coastal areas of Queensland. The storm moved south during the weekend of 26-28 January, and it brought widespread heavy rain and localized flash flooding to north New South Wales. Flooding in areas of Queensland are the worst the state has ever experienced, devastating thousands of people and claiming six lives. |
| FL-2013-000013-BWA
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Flood |
Botswana |
Flooding due to extremely heavy rains has affected the North-East and Central districts of Botswana since mid-January 2013. In Dukwi Refugee Camp, around 120 shelters housing 325 refugees were damaged by high waters. Sewage systems in the camp were also affected. |
| FL-2013-000012-SYC
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Flood |
Seychelles |
Seychelles, hit by a series of rare floods and landslides, declared a state of emergency on 28 Jan 2013 and appealed for international aid through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the UN Resident Coordinator's Office. Although only three districts on the main island of Mahe have been affected, with 106 people displaced to temporary shelters and 50 houses destroyed, response capacity is very limited. |
| FL-2013-000011-ZWE
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Flood |
Zimbabwe |
Heavy rains starting on 7 Jan 2013 have affected an estimated 4,475 people across Zimbabwe whose houses have either been submerged in water or destroyed. The heavy downpours have also caused major damage to agricultural lands, destroying maize crops (the main staple), as well as disrupting public services such as road transportation and education. The main provinces requiring humanitarian response are in Matebeleland South, Matebeleland North, Manicaland, Mashonaland Central, Masvingo and Midlands. |
| CW-2013-000010-BLR
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Cold Wave |
Belarus |
Freezing weather has already killed 4 persons in Belarus over the past few days and temperatures are set to drop even further according to weather forecasts. |
| EP-2013-000009-GHA
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Epidemic |
Ghana |
21 January 2013, the Ghana health service declared a cholera outbreak in the Ashanti region. The most affected area in the region included the Obuasi Municipality in the Obuasi District and Ejura Municipality in the Ejura/Sekyedumase District.
As of 21 January, 18 persons have died and over 250 persons are currently being cared for at the hospitals. 310 cases are currently registered. The majority of the infected persons are women (200 persons) and a high number of children (53 persons) have been infected. |
| FL-2013-000008-MOZ
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Flood |
Mozambique |
On 12 Jan 2013, the Mozambique authorities declared an orange alert due to heavy rains that lasted for more than a week. Small-scale flooding resulted in nine deaths and affected a total of 18,699 people
throughout the country. 1,889 houses were destroyed, 985 damaged and 679 inundated. Nine temporary accommodations centers were set up around Maputo city to provide shelter to about 5,492 people. |
| FR-2013-000007-BEN
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Fire |
Benin |
On the 6th of January, a fire outbreak in the village of Alloya resulted in that almost 3,000 persons were displaced, with the families currently being in a very vulnerable situation without any shelter. |
| FL-2013-000006-IDN
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Flood |
Indonesia |
Floodwaters have inundated 52 subdistricts in Jakarta since Tuesday, claiming one life and displacing some 6,000 residents |
| CW-2013-000005-JPN
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Cold Wave |
Japan |
Heavy snowfall in eastern Japan has brought disruption to road, rail and air transport and caused injuries to nearly 900 people. |
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