Overall Green alert Flood for Colombia
in Colombia

Flood impact summary

Flood Colombia is expected to have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID: 1100255
Deaths: 1
Displaced: 1000
Region: Antioquia, Apartadó, Apartado Municipality
Countries: Colombia
From - To 28 Oct - 01 Nov
Known identifiers for this event:

GDACS Score

For more info on GDACS alert score click here.

Impact Assessement as of 28-10-2019

SENDAI Indicator A N Country Location Info
death 1 Colombia Mosquitos
SENDAI Indicator B N Country Location Info
affected 10000 Colombia Apartadó, Apartado Municipality
displaced 1000 Colombia Jericó, Jerico
injured 16 Colombia Mosquitos
SENDAI Indicator C N Country Location Info
houses damaged 2600 Colombia Apartadó, Apartado Municipality

Satellite Observation

Satellite-based Flood extent provided by GLOFAS
Overall of the satellite-based flooded area from / to : 2019-10-21 / 2019-11-08  

Monday 21/10Tuesday 22/10Wednesday 23/10Thursday 24/10Friday 25/10Saturday 26/10Sunday 27/10Monday 28/10Tuesday 29/10Wednesday 30/10Thursday 31/10Friday 01/11Saturday 02/11Sunday 03/11Monday 04/11Tuesday 05/11Wednesday 06/11Thursday 07/11Friday 08/11

Timeline of revisions

For accessing reports of previous advisories, please click on the advisory number in the table below.

IDAlert ColorPopulation affectedStart DateEnd DateSource
1 1 deaths and 1000 displaced 03 Nov 2019 06 Nov 2019 GLOFAS
2 0 deaths 28 Oct 2019 01 Nov 2019 GLOFAS

Flood polygons

This polygon (translucent blue with a blue border) is drawn by the analysts recording the flood event. It is meant to include all the areas reported as affected, by official source or the media. It does not represent the area actually under water.

Microwave flood detection

Flooded area, as detected in microwaves by the Global Flood Detection System of the JRC, based on NASA TRMM/GPM observations. This system has a rather low resolution (of 5-10km) but is not affected by clouds.
For more details, see http://www.unisdr.org/files/9622_LBNA23303ENC002.pdf.
The areas with a flood signal along the coast are an artefact of the system and should not be considered.

Optical Flood detection

Flooded area as detected in optical wavelengths by NASA/MODIS, known as "MODIS Flood Product". Data are made available by NASA GSFC Flood Mapping Project, http://oas.gsfc.nasa.gov/floodmap/index.html. Resolution of 250m, heavily affected by cloud cover.