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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: 8692 hits 348 Pages: 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 GLIDEnumber Event Country Comments EQ-1999-000321-TWN Earthquake Taiwan (China) "On Sempteber 21(at Local), the earthquake occured around 01:47 local time (20 September 17:47 GMT) at Taiwan. The quake registered 7.6 on the Richter scale. The epicentre was near NANTO, 145km southern south east of the capital, TAIPEI.The death toll from Taiwan's devastating earthquake stood at 2,375."  FL-1999-000315-GHA Flood Ghana Heavy rains have caused severe flooding in three northern regions in Ghana killing at least 70 people and displacing more than 280,000 persons.   EQ-1999-000302-GRC Earthquake Greece On Sempteber 7, the earthquake occured around 1500 local time (1200 GMT) and was followed by a series of strong aftershocks. The Athens Seismological Institute said the quake registered 5.9 on the Richter scale, and the epicentre was 20km (12.4 miles) north of the capital. The seismic shift occurred 5 to 10km below the ground.   FL-1999-000286-GMB Flood Gambia Prolonged and heavy rainfall between June to August 1999 caused flooding in several divisions of the country. On 25 August the Government declared a state of emergency and appealed for assistance.   WF-1999-000274-RUS Wild fire Russia   WF-1999-000273-BOL Wild fire Bolivia   EQ-1999-000268-TUR Earthquake Turkey The 1999 İzmit earthquake was an approximately 7.6 magnitude earthquake that struck northwestern Turkey on August 17, 1999. The event lasted for 37 seconds, killing up to 45,000 people and leaving approximately half a million people homeless.  DR-1999-000267-DJI Drought Djibouti Nearly 100,000 were affected.  FL-1999-000265-TCD Flood Chad   FL-1999-000259-KHM Flood Cambodia The flash floods, triggered by torrential rains during the first week of August, caused significant damage in the provinces of Sihanoukville, Koh Kong and Kam Pot. As of 10 August, four people were killed, some 8,000 people were left homeless, and 200 meters of railroads were washed away. More than 12,000 hectares of rice paddies were flooded in Kam Pot province alone.   FL-1999-000253-PHL Flood Philippines The heavy rainfall have been pouring down for a week. It have provoked lethal floods and landslides in the Metropolitan Manila and nearly provinces. Most severely affected is the Rizal Province. Other provinces, such as Pangasinan, Pampanga or Bulacan have also been inundated. Heavy monsoon rains left 177 people dead and 1.3 billion pesos (33 million dollars) in damage.  FL-1999-000247-KOR Flood Korea Republic From July 31 to Aug. 4, as typhoon Olga swept through the Korean peninsula, torrential rains caused extensive property damage and human casualties  FL-1999-000244-VNM Flood Viet Nam Continued heavy rain in Vietnam caused flooding.  FL-1999-000240-SRB Flood Serbia Heavy and continuous precipitation between 9 and 14 July has led to extensive flooding in central parts of Serbia. Daily recorded precipitation in the Morava and Kolubara river water basins was the highest since 1925. Flood waters have caused extensive damage to private homes, communal and industrial property, power lines, roads, bridges, crops and agricultural land.   FL-1999-000235-IRN Flood Iran, Islamic Republic Heavy rains caused flooding in the cities of Sari (Provincial capital), Behshahr and Neka, and in 42 villages in Mayandaran Province in northern Iran on 25 July. 37 people have lost their lives with 17 persons missing, 250 persons have been injured, with 4,010 houses damaged. Rain stopped on 26 July.   FL-1999-000233-SVK Flood Slovakia At the end of June 1999 severe floods occurred in the North and Middle Slovakia due to heavy rains. Shortly after the June floods, a third flood wave occurred at the beginning of July.   FL-1999-000229-TJK Flood Tajikistan As a result of torrential rains on 7-8 July 1999, three districts in Tajikistan have experienced severe flooding and landslides. The districts are: Ashd and Aini in the Leninabad region, and Jirgatal in the Karategin Valley. Of the three, Ashd is the most severely affected with at least two villages reportedly destroyed.   FL-1999-000213-IND Flood India The current monsoon is causing significant damage in the States of Assam, Bihar, Kerala, Tripura and West Bengal. 3,212 villages in 35 districts have been affected and 15,058 houses have suffered damage. The death toll by torrential monsoon rains in India rose to 367. (The death toll from flooding in the eastern Indian state of Bihar has reached 250.)  EQ-1999-000208-MEX Earthquake Mexico An earthquake measured 6.5 on the Richter scale hit Mexico on 15 June 1999 at 15:42 hrs local time. The epicentre of the quake was about 200 kilometres southeast of Mexico City.   EQ-1999-000196-AZE Earthquake Azerbaijan   WF-1999-000195-AFG Wild fire Afghanistan A massive fire broke out in the forest of the Sholake valley, Kunar province. The fire started on 12 June, and it is continuing in all directions, and have burned over 5 hectares, devastated settlements.   FL-1999-000194-MDA Flood Moldova   ST-1999-000178-PAK SEVERE LOCAL STORM Pakistan On the evening of 20 May 1999 the coastal areas of Sindh province were hit by the Tropical Cyclone "2A" devastating several towns and fishermen communities in Thatta, Badin and Tharparkar districts.  FL-1999-000161-LKA Flood Sri Lanka A torrential rains caused flood in Sri Lanka. Six People are killed by landslide and thunderstroke. 200,000 people were left homeless following torrential rains continuing since 19 April in the Western and Southern administrative districts.   FL-1999-000160-PER Flood Peru Unofficial estimates show approximately 100,000 people affected, with some 35,000 now living in severe conditions.Damage caused to approximately 10,000 houses, schools and sanitary centres and to cultivated land.   8692 hits 348 Pages: 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340	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 16 From: 2026/4/12  To: 2026/4/23 WF-2026-000060-JPN Wild fire,Japan: Wildfires broke out Wednesday at two sites in the same town in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, prompting local authorities to urge over 1,000 residents to evacuate, while requesting assistance from the Self-Defense Forces to fight the flames. EQ-2026-000057-JPN Earthquake,Japan: GDACS - Medium humanitarian impact, magnitude 7.4M tsunami generates 1.01m FL-2026-000059-NZL Flood,New Zealand: Wellington flooding: Thousands ordered to evacuate homes in New Zealand capital after worst rainfall ever recorded. Wellington declared a state of emergency on Monday after torrential rainfall battered New Zealand's capital city overnight. ST-2026-000061-THA SEVERE LOCAL STORM,Thailand: Very strong winds, thunderstorms and hailstorms affected south-eastern Thailand (mainly the Nakhon Phanom, Ubon Ratchathani, Buriram and Sisaket provinces) and several provinces in the north-west of the country over 14-16 April, causing a number of severe weather-related incidents that have resulted in casualties and damage. FL-2026-000056-CAN Flood,Canada: Thousands of Canadians across the country spent the weekend in a desperate struggle with rising floodwaters caused by unusually persistent rainfall. Nearly 1,900 homes have been flooded in 126 municipalities in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario. On Sunday, Montreal became the latest city in Quebec to declare a state of emergency after three dikes gave way in the Pierrefonds-Roxboro borough, in the north end of the city by the Rivieres des Prairies. Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre said homes have been evacuated in that borough as well as on two nearby islands. Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said that the military response to flooding in Quebec is likely to balloon. "At the moment, since yesterday, there are 450 Canadian forces personnel on the ground in various locations across Quebec," Goodale told CTV's "Question Period" on Sunday. "We have over 100 firemen who are working 24 hours a day, visiting door to door and making some evacuations," he said. West of Montreal, the small town of Rigaud issued a mandatory evacuation order Sunday and a state of emergency has been in place for several days. In Gatineau, Que., near the border with Ontario, 380 residences were evacuated and officials want to evacuate another 900 homes Sunday. The situation in Ontario seems to be "generally stabilizing," although there are many unstable local circumstances, he said. In Atlantic Canada, some parts of New Brunswick recorded more than 150 millimetres of rain after a nearly 36 hour non-stop downpour. A weather station northeast of Saint John, N.B., measured 155 millimetres of precipitation from late Friday to early Sunday, Environment Canada meteorologist Stephen Fougere said Sunday, adding that surrounding areas had up to 125 millimetres. While the deluge has tapered off in the province, New Brunswick's St. John River is spilling its banks, prompting several road closures. TC-2026-000051-PNG Tropical Cyclone,Papua New Guinea: Over 10-11 April, tropical cyclone MAILA continued moving very slowly over the Solomon Sea, with maximum sustained winds up to 130 km/h, further weakening into a tropical storm and dissipating. Its passage over the Solomon Sea caused very heavy rainfall, strong winds and consequent floods, landslides and severe weather-related incidents across eastern Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.