Overall Green alert Flood
in Brazil

Event summary

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

GDACS ID FL 1101868
Death: 40
Displaced: 2496
Countries: Brazil
From - To 18 Feb - 20 Feb

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Meteo assessment
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Northern São Paulo State, Brazil, Late February 2023Torrential rain caused flooding and landslides in areas of the north coast of the state São Paulo State, Brazil, on 19 February 2023. The governor of São Paulo state in Brazil has declared a state of emergency for the cities of Ubatuba, São Sebastião, Ilhabela, Caraguatatuba and Bertioga. As of 20 February, 36 deaths were confirmed and 566 displaced. By 21 February 40 fatalities were reported and 2,496 were displaced.Tue 21 Feb 2023FloodList provided by Copernicus GloFAS
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"ECHO Daily Map of 22 February 2023"

Latest media headlines

Articles: 13 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Inundación en Brasil: confirman al menos 48 muertos 2/23/2023 12:02:00 AM.

"En este momento tenemos 48 víctimas y trabajamos con un número de 38 desaparecidos , que puede variar", dijo Tarcísio de Freitas, gobernador del estado de San Pablo, donde ocurrieron los deslizamientos e inundaciones Continuaremos las b
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Aumentaron a 48 los muertos por el fuerte temporal que azotó el surest.. 2/22/2023 6:55:00 PM.

El número de fallecidos por las lluvias récord registradas el fin de semana en el sureste de Brasil se elevó a 48 , informaron las autoridades este miércoles, al cuarto día de búsquedas por decenas de desaparecidos. En este momento tenemos
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Brazil floods: 44 dead and 38 missing 2/22/2023 3:28:00 AM.

Rescuers evacuate the body of a victim of the flood. Searches continued Tuesday in southeastern Brazil in an attempt to find the 38 people missing in landslides that swept away many homes and could raise the death toll to another 44. More t
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Lula visits the coast of SP and extols union; the area had its heavies.. 2/21/2023 6:55:00 PM.

In a joint statement after a meeting in São Sebastião, President Lula and Governor Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans) announced measures for the region affected by last weekend's heavy rains. This is the second time Lula and Tarcísio have me
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Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (36), (2), NASA (4), WMO (1), INFORM (2),