Overall Green Flood alert in Syria from 08 Feb 2023 01:00 UTC to 10 Feb 2023 01:00 UTC

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Overall Green alert Flood

in Syria

Event summary

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

GDACS ID	FL 1101854
Death:	0
Displaced:	500
Countries:	Syria
From - To	08 Feb - 10 Feb

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Syria, Early February 2023Reuters reported 500 families evacuated the town of Al-Tloul, near Salqin in Idlib Governorate, northern Syria, after the recent earthquakes in Turkey damaged a dam on the Orontes river which forms the border between Syria and Turkey. The river was reportedly already swollen after recent heavy rain.Fri 10 Feb 2023Provided by Copernicus EMS GloFAS

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Cypriot students won a championship in Turkey and then the earthquake .. 2/13/2023 1:17:00 AM.

A week after one of the largest humanitarian disasters to hit the region, the tragic stories left behind by the devastating earthquake in Syria and Turkey continue to flood in. In another painful story, the volleyball team, which include

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Govt to continue assistance for Turkiye, Syria earthquake victims, say.. 2/12/2023 5:35:00 AM.

LAHORE - Federal Minister Rana Tanvir Hussain on Saturday said that the government would continue taking all out measures for providing assistance and complete restoration for Turkiye and Syria earthquake victims. Talking to the media along

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Govt to continue assistance for Turkiye, Syria quake victims: Tanvir 2/12/2023 5:24:00 AM.

Federal Minister Rana Tanvir Hussain on Saturday said that the government would continue taking all out measures for providing assistance and complete restoration for Turkiye and Syria earthquake victims. Talking to the media along with Fed

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Turkey-Syria earthquake: Horror, brief happiness, then heartache in se.. 2/11/2023 5:31:00 PM.

Mohamed Kano, 21, has just come back from taking the bodies of his uncle and young cousin to relatives in Syria to be buried in their border town home, Azaz. His family fled the Syrian civil war 10 years ago, only to find death in Kahram

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (37), (2), NASA (4), DesInventar (1), INFORM (2),

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