Overall Green alert Drought for Southeastern Mediterranean-2024
in Egypt, Israel, Libya

Event summary

The drought has lasted for 5 months. Drought indicators suggest anomalies typical of mild to severe events.

GDACS ID DR 1016906
Name: Southeastern Mediterranean-2024
Countries: Egypt, Israel, Libya
Start Date: End of Nov 2023
Duration: 175 days
Impact: Minor impact for agricultural drought in 158938 km2
More info: Global Drought Observatory

GDACS Score

For more info on GDACS alert score click here.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
Analytical products
Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 52 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

High-Water Levels in Lake Victoria May Also Affect White Nile in Sudan2024-05-17T20:17+0200.

Kampala Uganda has warned of an alarming increase in the water level of Lake Victoria. Ugandan Minister of Water and Environment Sam Cheptoris told reporters earlier this week that the water level of Lake Victoria has risen to its highest l
...(more)
Svelato uno dei misteri dietro la costruzione delle piramidi2024-05-17T13:31+0200.

Un tassello dietro il mistero della costruzione delle piramidi dell'antico Egitto è stato risolto grazie ad una campagna di indagini radar via satellite e sul posto. Ricercatori dell'University of North Carolina Wilmington hanno infatti sco
...(more)
Finalmente sappiamo come furono costruite le piramidi: svelato mistero ... 2024-05-17T12:10+0200.

Nel 2017 fu reso pubblico un documento importantissimo che fece luce sulla costruzione delle maestose piramidi dell' antico Egitto . Un papiro rinvenuto dagli archeologi nel porto di Wadi Al-Jarf , rivelò infatti che i giganteschi blocchi d
...(more)
Antiche Piramidi dell’Egitto: Mistero del Ramo Perduto del Nilo2024-05-17T05:05+0200.

Il complesso delle piramidi di Giza in Egitto, che include la Grande Piramide e la Grande Sfinge, visto da un aereo. (Dario Morandotti/Unsplash) Decine di antiche piramidi dell’Egitto si ergono in una striscia remota di deserto arido, lonta
...(more)

View more news

Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Analytical products

Analytical report

23/Feb/2024 08:39 UTC

GDO analytical report imported in GDACS update automatic procedure

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: (2), EC-JRC (36), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2),