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Select Continent: Select Country:   Select Event: Any Africa Americas Asia Europe Oceania Any Afghanistan Albania Algeria American Samoa Angola Anguilla Antigua & Barbuda Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Azores Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia-Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Canary Islands Cape Verde Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile China, People's Republic Colombia Comoros Congo Democratic Republic Congo, Republic Cook Islands Costa Rica Cote d'Ivoire Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czechoslovakia Czech Rep Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Eswatini Ethiopia Fiji Finland former East Timor code France French Guiana French Polynesia Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guadeloupe Guam Guatemala Guinea Guinea Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong (China) Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran, Islamic Republic Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Korea, Democratic People's Republic Korea Republic Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Lao People's Democratic Republic Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libyan Arab Jamah Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Micronesia, Federated States Moldova Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue (Non-Localized) Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Palestine (West Bank, Gaza) Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Reunion Romania Russia Rwanda Saint Lucia Saint Vincent & The Grenadines Samoa Sao Tome et Principe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa South Sudan Soviet Union Spain Sri Lanka St Helena St Kitts & Nevis Sudan Suriname Sweden Switzerland Syrian Arab Rep Taiwan (China) Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Timor Leste Togo Tokelau Tonga Trinidad & Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks & Caicos Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela Viet Nam Virgin Islands (UK) Virgin Islands (US) Wallis & Futuna Islands Yemen Yugoslavia Zaire/Congo, Dem Rep (PREVIOUS) Zambia Zimbabwe Any CW - Cold Wave CE - Complex Emergency DR - Drought EQ - Earthquake EP - Epidemic EC - Extratropical Cyclone ET - Extreme temperature(use CW/HW instead) FA - Famine(use other HAZARD instead) FR - Fire FF - Flash Flood FL - Flood HT - Heat Wave IN - Insect Infestation LS - Land Slide MS - Mud Slide OT - Other ST - SEVERE LOCAL STORM SL - SLIDE (use LS/ AV/MS instead) AV - Snow Avalanche SS - Storm Surge AC - Tech. Disaster TO - Tornadoes TC - Tropical Cyclone TS - Tsunami VW - Violent Wind VO - Volcano WV - Wave/Surge(use TS/SS instead) WF - Wild fire Use Ctrl-Click and/or Shift-Click for multiple selections. If NO selections are made, ALL items will be selected Type keywords:      Looking for: All Words Any Word Search between these dates: (yyyy-mm-dd) From: To: Hits per page: 10 25 50 100 200      Sorted by: GLIDE Country, Event, Date Country, Date, Event Event, Country, Date Event, Date, Country Date, Country, Event Date, Event, Country Showing approximate location of disasters Search Results: 8499 hits 340 Pages: 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 GLIDEnumber Event Country Comments FL-2008-000041-TZA Flood Tanzania In the Arusha region, in Mto wa Mbu area, more than 1500 people are homeless, one dead, after their houses were flooded  AC-2008-000040-TZA Tech. Disaster Tanzania Over 70 artisan miners are feared dead while on underground small scale mining activities.  OT-2008-000039-BGD Other Bangladesh Initial rapid assessments carried out by UNDP shows that 25,680 households from 642 villages have been affected and are under severe food crisis due to bamboo flowering.  FL-2008-000038-ARG Flood Argentina Since 9 March, 2008 constant rain and the subsequent overflow of the Bermejo, Pilcomayo and Carapari rivers have been causing severe floods in the departments of Rivadavia, San Martin and Oran in the province of Salta. Several bridges are severely damaged and main roads are obstructed; their current inaccessibility is isolating several communities. Some 17,000 families have been affected by the floods and at least 11,600 persons are isolated, especially in the areas of Rivadavia, Banda Norte, Sur and Santa Victoria Este located north of the province of Salta.   TC-2008-000037-BGD Tropical Cyclone Bangladesh A tropical storm swept nine districts in north and northeastern Bangladesh, killing at least 12 people and injuring more than 200.  AC-2008-000036-ALB Tech. Disaster Albania Massive explosions near the Albanian capital of Tirana on 15 March 2008, have badly affected three villages. According to information received from the local authorities a number of buildings, including homes, have been totally destroyed and 90 per cent of the population living in those villages have been evacuated and accommodated with relatives who live in the nearby area. Explosions continued for many hours until 14:00 on 16 March close to the village of Gerdec, 16 kilometres from Tirana. The government has declared a state of emergency for this area and emergency commissions have been set up at central and local level.  FL-2008-000035-PRY Flood Paraguay The executive power issued a decree (11.919) on 12 March 2008, declaring the state of emergency for a period of 90 days in Alto Paraguay, affected by continuous rains and floodings.  OT-2008-000034-PAK Other Pakistan Governments officials have confirmed 24 people have been killed and more than 150 injured by bomb explosions at two sites in Lahore.  TC-2008-000033-MOZ Tropical Cyclone Mozambique Authorities in Mozambique have issued a red alert in several coastal districts as tropical cyclone Jokwe moves south through the Mozambique Channel after killing at least four people and injuring several others in the north.  FL-2008-000032-KAZ Flood Kazakhstan On 20 February 2008 in the South Kazakhstan oblast floods started due to the warm air temperatures and heavy rains causing melting snow. As of 25.02.08 24 localities are flooded (259 houses are destroyed and 2345 flooded; 12744 people are displaced, one person died).   FL-2008-000031-PER Flood Peru 16 people were killed, left 24 missing and destroyed highways and homes since January, the government declared a state of emergency in 4 districts in the interior and on Peru's northern coast.   FL-2008-000030-IDN Flood Indonesia Floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains in Indonesia's Java and Nusa Tenggara Timur islands have killed 11 people and displaced thousands over the past two weeks. It is said that more than 3,500 people have been displaced in Central Java where some cities have been inundated by filthy water up to two metres high for nearly two weeks.  EP-2008-000029-BFA Epidemic Burkina Faso A meningitis epidemic has lead to nearly 2000 cases and over 250 deaths in the first seven weeks of the year with a lethality rate of more than 13% according to the MoH and WHO. So far 14 health districts are the most concerned and are either in the epidemic phase (Gaoua and Mangodar) or alert phase (Banfora, Bati?, Boromo, Di?bougou, Hound?, Kaya, Nanoro, Orodara, R?o, S?gu?n?ga, Titao, Toma).   EQ-2008-000028-IDN Earthquake Indonesia A 7.5 magnitude quake whose epicentre was near the island of Simeulue, 319km (198 miles) off the coast of Sumatra, struck off Indonesia's Aceh province on 20 February 2008. At least three people have been killed and 25 seriously injured by the quake  EP-2008-000027-BEN Epidemic Benin In the Republic of Benin, 4 out of the 12 counties have recorded cases of meningitis between the months of January and February 2008. The situation is very worrisome as the infection is spreading rapidly.   AV-2008-000026-IND Snow Avalanche India Avalanches swept Indian-administered Kashmir which caused at least 115 casualties. The heaviest snowfall in recent years brought the Himalayan region to a standstill.   CW-2008-000025-IRN Cold Wave Iran, Islamic Republic Iran was hit by heavy snow storm which caused a number of avalanches, with the build up of ice on the roads causing numerous traffic accidents. Tehran declared two days of national holiday, as temperatures dropped to -24 degrees Celsius or lower. The heavy snow and bitterly cold weather caused scores of deaths.  FL-2008-000024-PHL Flood Philippines The Low Pressure Area (LPA) in the East of Northern Mindanao from February 12-17, 2008 and tail-end of a cold front brought rains that caused flooding and landslide in the Province of eastern Samar.  TC-2008-000023-MDG Tropical Cyclone Madagascar Ivan, one of the largest cyclones ever to hit Madagascar, was packing winds of more than 125 mph (200 kph) when it hit the Indian Ocean island's east coast, causing the collapse of a hotel where nine people were sheltering.  EP-2008-000022-PRY Epidemic Paraguay In Paraguay, around 350 cases of hemorrhagic dengue were detected. Five cases of Yellow Fever were detected and one person died (one case of yellow fever is considered as an epidemic). Last case reported in Paraguay was 40 years ago  EP-2008-000021-CAF Epidemic Central African Republic 25 cases of meningitis were registered in the Nana Gribizi district.  TO-2008-000020-USA Tornadoes United States Tornadoes and storms in the mid-South have killed 54 people. It is the deadliest tornado outbreak in the United States in more than 20 years.   DR-2008-000019-IND Drought India ACT Alert 05 Feb. 2008: The Bundelkhand region has been declared as "drought-affected" by the Indian state government. Severe water shortages is threatening the survival of some villages in the region.   FL-2008-000018-ECU Flood Ecuador Torrential rains have caused widespread flooding. According to preliminary evaluation, approximately 12,794 people are affected.   EQ-2008-000017-COD Earthquake Congo Democratic Republic An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 on the Richter?s scale struck the province of South Kivu, in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday 3 February 2008 at 07H35 GMT (09H35 local time). The epicentre of the earthquake lies approximately 20 km north of the provincial capital, Bukavu, near the shores of lake Kivu, and a short distance from the airstrip of Kavumu. Preliminary: 200 injured and 5 deaths (Bukavu and Kabare; news reports of 34 dead in Rwanda (AFP)  8499 hits 340 Pages: 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180	GLIDEnumber: About Glide How to Join Participating Institutions GLIDE-enabled sites Help Topics Disclaimer Get results as: Statistics Charts Tabular Reports Report a Missing Disaster:   If you know about a disaster that is not registered in GLIDEnumber.net: Create/Edit missing disaster report Please note you need to be a registered user to report missing disasters Latest Events: Disasters on or after week 33 From: 2025/8/10  To: 2025/8/21 WF-2025-000143-KGZ Wild fire,Kyrgyzstan: A forest fire broke out in the Panfilov District of the Chuy Region, in the Orto-Aryk Village. According to the district department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the area of ​​the fire already exceeds 90 hectares. The fire, which began on August 17, was caused by the ignition of dry grass. It quickly spread from Mount Bert-Bulak to the slope of Uzun-Bulak. EQ-2025-000138-IDN Earthquake,Indonesia: GDACS - Medium humanitarian impact, magnitude 5.8M WF-2025-000141-ESP Wild fire,Spain: GDACS - Medium humanitarian impact in Spain. FL-2025-000139-PAK Flood,Pakistan: GDACS - Medium humanitarian impact in for Pakistan.Heavy monsoon rainfall in mid-August 2025 caused severe flooding in areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. Five people died after a helicopter carrying relief supplies to affected areas of Bajaur crashed due to bad weather. Lightning strikes also caused fatalities and damage during this period. The provincial disaster agency also reported flooding as a result of melting snow. WF-2025-000135-ESP Wild fire,Spain: GDACS - Medium humanitarian impact in Spain. HT-2025-000132-SYR Heat Wave,Syrian Arab Rep: According to the Syrian General Directorate of Meteorology, a severe heatwave is forecast from 8 to 13 August 2025, with peak temperatures of 43-45°C (109-113°F) in multiple governorates. Night temperatures are expected to remain high (27-31°C), preventing nighttime cooling and exacerbating cumulative heat stress. WF-2025-000133-GRC Wild fire,Greece: GDACS - Medium humanitarian impact in Greece.