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Green Flood alert in Columbia from 20/04/2012 00:00 UTC to 26/04/2012 23:59 UTC
GDACS Event Report - Summary

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This flood can have a low humanitarian impact based on the Magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

Updated: this report is based on update number 250.

  • Flood Magnitude 5.89
  • from 20/04/2012 00:00 UTC to 26/04/2012 23:59 UTC
  • 17 killed and 56000 displaced

References

Latest media headlines

Articles: 2 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Flooding disperses invasive plant, fish species
Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:27:00 +0200   newschannel5 (en)

Last year's hurricanes and flooding not only engulfed homes and carried away roads and bridges in hard-hit areas of the country, it dispersed aggressive invasive species as well.

People and organisations: Storm Irene  Hurricane Katrina  Nature  Missouri River 

FEMA: Recovery Continues With Assistance to Pennsylvania Communities
Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:03:00 +0200   7thspace (en)

Federal assistance continues to support Pennsylvania’s recovery from Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee. The aid now focuses on supporting whole community recovery and preparing for future disasters. Disaster assistance to date totals ...

People and organisations: Hurricane Irene  Storm Lee  Tropical Storm Lee 

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