Overall Orange alert Flood
in North Korea

Event summary

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

GDACS ID FL 4397
Glide number: FL-2016-000097-PRK
Death: 133
Displaced: 107000
Countries: North Korea
From - To 05 Sep - 22 Sep

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Latest media headlines

Articles: 652 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

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new Wildfire forces geothermal plant evacuationMon, 26 Sep 2016 23:13:00 +0200.

CLOVERDALE, Calif. (AP) — A wildfire that erupted amid hot, dry conditions and gusty winds in Sonoma County north of San Francisco was burning close a massive geothermal power producing facility on Monday, forcing the evacuation of one of i
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Carefully watching a wave in the tropicsMon, 26 Sep 2016 22:48:00 +0200.

A big tropical wave (Invest 97L) is headed for the Caribbean. A tropical depression is likely to form in the next day or two, according to the National Hurricane Center and could become Matthew by the middle of the week. This system could
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California wildfire forces geothermal plant evacuationMon, 26 Sep 2016 22:45:00 +0200.

CLOVERDALE, Calif. (AP) — A wildfire that erupted amid hot, dry conditions and gusty winds in Sonoma County north of San Francisco was burning close a massive geothermal power producing facility on Monday, forcing the evacuation of one of i
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (36), NASA (7), INFORM (1), (1),