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Event |
Country |
Comments |
| FL-2011-000007-ZAF
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Flood |
South Africa |
Recent floods have killed 40 people and caused the displacement of 6,000. |
| VO-2011-000006-IDN
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Volcano |
Indonesia |
Mt. Bromo erupted intermittently with some relatively big blast at the end of Dec. 2010. Indonesia Red Cross was mobilized, providing masks, water, hygiene operation, psychosocial services to 500 households. |
| FL-2011-000005-HND
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Flood |
Honduras |
More than 200 people evacuated, roads and bridges damaged after a cold front triggered floods, violent winds and high tides in the northern region (departments of Cortes and Colon). |
| CW-2011-000004-BGD
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Cold Wave |
Bangladesh |
A severe cold wave with dense fog has been sweeping through all over Bangldesh since 7 January 2011. According to the Meteorological Department the temperature is recorded as 2 to 5 degree Celsius less than the normal average temperature during this time of the year. The cold wave claimed more than 30 lives most of who are children and elderly. Hospitals in the affected districts have reported higher numbers of admissions with cold weather related illness. |
| FL-2011-000003-LKA
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Flood |
Sri Lanka |
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has issued directives to Essential Services Commission to muster all its resources to assist the recent flood victims in all possible manners. |
| FL-2011-000002-BRA
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Flood |
Brazil |
At least 48 people killed by heavy rains that sparked landslides and destroyed buildings in Teresopolis near Rio de Janeiro |
| CW-2011-000001-CHN
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Cold Wave |
China, People's Republic |
Icy rains force 58,000 to evacuate in southern China with 142,400 hectares of crops damaged, causing more than 1,200 houses to collapse and killing one person. |
| ST-201-000413-USA
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SEVERE LOCAL STORM |
United States |
Widespread severe hail damage across north and central Texas including the cities of Plano, Wylie, Frisco, Allen and San Antonio. The damage in San Antonio was particularly severe as the National Weather Service verified reports of hail size reaching 4.5 inches in diameter. This ranks as one of the most costly hail events to affect the United States. |
| CW-2010-000281-DNK
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Cold Wave |
Denmark |
On December 27, 2010, the island of Bornholm with a population of just under 40,000 faced a life-threatening situation due to a heavy blizzard. Bornholm's news stations went offline, and hundreds of residents found themselves unable to venture outdoors because of the extensive snowfall. Many people had to spend days in sports halls and similar temporary housing facilities, as roads around the island became impassable. In response to the crisis, emergency centers were established to provide assistance with medication, food, and other necessities. The cost of emergency snow removal amounted to a total of 7.2 Million USD. |
| AC-2010-000280-USA
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Tech. Disaster |
United States |
Off of the coast of the United States in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect, considered to be the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry
The United States federal government estimated the total discharge at 4.9 MMbbl (210,000,000 US gal; 780,000 m3).
After several failed efforts to contain the flow, the well was declared sealed on 19 September 2010. Reports in early 2012 indicated that the well site was still leaking. This Deepwater Horizon oil spill is regarded as one of the largest environmental disasters in world history. |
| FL-2010-000279-USA
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Flood |
United States |
Heavy rainfall from a Nor'easter in mid-March brought record amounts of flooding to several Northeastern states that persisted for much of the month and left more than $2 billion worth of damage. |
| ST-2010-000278-USA
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SEVERE LOCAL STORM |
United States |
A severe storm system brought damaging hail, tornadoes and flooding to many states throughout the Southern and Eastern parts of the country. |
| TO-2010-000277-USA
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Tornadoes |
United States |
An outbreak of tornadoes caused widespread damage and brought significant hail and thunderstorms across Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas. |
| ST-2010-000276-USA
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SEVERE LOCAL STORM |
United States |
Severe thunderstorms produced numerous tornadoes and significant hail damage throughout Arizona over a two day period from October 5 through October 6. |
| VW-2010-000275-BRN
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Violent Wind |
Brunei Darussalam |
5 mukim effected with the strong winds-1 school 1 library |
| LS-2010-000274-BRN
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Land Slide |
Brunei Darussalam |
A land slide occurs in Brunei Muara Districts which affected 14 areas |
| LS-2010-000273-BRN
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Land Slide |
Brunei Darussalam |
A landslide that occurred in Tutong District affected 4 residential areas. Source of information was unknown. |
| VW-2010-000272-BRN
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Violent Wind |
Brunei Darussalam |
In 18 Dec 2010, Strong winds affecting 5 mukims in Kampong Ayer, Brunei Muara, which involve 1 schools and 1 library building and cost damage lost BND $508,832.90 |
| LS-2010-000271-BRN
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Land Slide |
Brunei Darussalam |
Land slide occurs in Brunei Muara District affected 14 areas. |
| FL-2010-000270-BRN
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Flood |
Brunei Darussalam |
flood 3 mukim effected |
| FL-2010-000269-BRN
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Flood |
Brunei Darussalam |
Heavy rains triggered floods and affected 3 Mukims |
| FL-2010-000268-BRN
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Flood |
Brunei Darussalam |
mukim 3..flood along belait area percaution needed |
| FL-2010-000267-BRN
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Flood |
Brunei Darussalam |
Flash Flood, Affected 1 Masjid and 4 Commercial Centres. |
| EQ-2010-000264-JPN
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Earthquake |
Japan |
Huge earthquake occured and more than 10,000 people were recommended to evacuate. |
| EP-2010-000263-KEN
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Epidemic |
Kenya |
The Division of Vaccines and Immunizations has requested for support from key partners, to conduct a measles vaccination campaign in 22 districts within 3 provinces (Rift Valley, Nairobi and North Eastern) following an outbreak of measles that was reported in these districts. According to the MoPHS, a total of 1,046 cases of Measles have been line-listed between 27 December 2010 and 14 April 2011, 427 cases have been line-listed in April alone. 80 of these cases have been confirmed as measles using serological tests and 11 deaths from measles have been confirmed this year (Case Fatality Proportion of 11.1%). |
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