Overall Green alert Flood for Spain
in Spain

Event summary

Flood Spain can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID FL 1101666
Death: 1
Displaced: 300
Countries: Spain
From - To 16 Sep - 25 Sep

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Eastern Spain, Late September 2022Emergency teams in Catalonia, Spain received 973 calls for 586 incidents due to the heavy rains that hit the province of Tarragona from 23 September 2022. Affected areas included the city of Tarragona, Salou and Vila-seca. The heavy rain caused flooding, landslides, road and highway closures, suspension of the railway service and also electricity supply problems. Several vehicles were reported damaged but no injuries or fatalities were reported.Sun 25 Sep 2022FloodList provided by Copernicus GLOFAS
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: 30 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Batabanó inundado tras el paso del huracán Ian2022-09-28T18:39+0200.

MADRID, España.- Los fuertes vientos, con rachas por encima de los 80 kilómetros por hora, asociados al huracán Ian provocaron grandes inundaciones por penetraciones del mar en el consejo popular Surgidero de Batabanó, en la provincia de Ma
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El Gobierno destina 10 millones a frenar el riesgo de inundación en la ... 2022-09-27T13:33+0200.

Vista general de una rueda de prensa posterior a la reunión del Consejo de Ministros, en el Palacio de La Moncloa, a 30 de agosto de 2022, en Madrid (España). Abortar sin permiso paterno a las menores de 16 y 17 años, el acceso gratuito a l
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Fertiberia asegura que "las máximas autoridades científicas" avalan el ... 2022-09-22T17:14+0200.

Las máximas autoridades científicas de España han avalado la fortaleza y la seguridad del proyecto de Fertiberia para la restauración de los apilamientos de fosfoyesos Restore 20/30, que logró en 2020 la Declaración de Impacto Ambiental (DI
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (36), (2), NASA (7), WMO (1), INFORM (2),