Overall Red alert Flood
in Mozambique

Event summary

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

GDACS ID FL 1000227
Glide number: 2019-000021
Death: 202
Displaced: 17100
Countries: Mozambique
From - To 09 Mar - 29 Mar

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Analytical products
Flood in Mozambique - Copernicus EMS activation (EMSR346)Sat, 09 Mar 2019 22:30

EMSR346: Copernicus Emergency Management Service has been activated
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

Hunger stalks Mozambique after deadly cyclone destroys farmland 4/1/2019 8:51:00 PM.

MAPUTO. – Fulai Joaquim has enough food to feed his 10 children for another week, maybe two. Then, he says, it is in the hands of God. A cyclone ripped his cassava crop from the ground, leaving the roots to rot in the field, and the floods
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Destructive cyclone leaves Mozambicans starving 4/1/2019 6:59:00 PM.

Cyclone Idai tore through central Mozambique flooding an estimated 700,000 hectares of agricultural land leaving many farmers with nothing to harvest, plunging hundreds of rural communities into a food crisis. Fulai Joaquim has enough food
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High level cyclone taskforce set up 4/1/2019 6:45:00 PM.

Rumbidzayi Zinyuke / George Maponga, Harare Bureau. A high level Cyclone Idai reconstruction and resettlement taskforce has been put together to facilitate the effective resolution of challenges faced by the disaster management teams in the
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Hunger stalks Mozambique after deadly cyclone destroys farmland 4/1/2019 4:22:00 PM.

More than 700,000 hectares of farmland were flooded and food prices shot up after Cyclone Idai, leaving many rural communities facing crisis. By Stephen Eisenhammer. NHAMPUEPUA, Mozambique, April 1 (Reuters) - Fulai Joaquim has enough food
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

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