Overall Green alert Flood
in India

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

GDACS ID FL 1102223
Death: 17
Displaced: 15556
Countries: India
From - To 15 Sep - 24 Sep

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India - Monsoon rains, update (ECHO 29 Sep 2023)Fri, 29 Sep 2023 09:22

  • The number of casualties and evacuated people continues to increase due to the monsoon rainfall that has been affecting several States of India,  resulting in severe floods and a number of severe weather-related incidents.
  • Over the last 24 hours, the National Emergency Response Centre (NDMI) reports six fatalities across four States, of which two each in Gujarat and Maharashtra and one each in Assam and Karnataka. During the same period, NDMI also reports more than 4,500 damaged houses across ten districts throughout four states, where the worst affected is Gujarat with 735 fully damaged houses.
  • Since 1 April there have been a reported 2,416 fatalities, 116 missing people, 1,889 injured people, and close to 110,000 damaged houses across 362 districts throughout all states of the country.
  • Over the next 72 hours, more heavy rainfall with locally very heavy rainfall is still forecast over the southern, eastern and western states of India.
Gujarat State, India, September 2023Heavy rain and rising rivers caused flooding in Gujarat State, India, from 15 September 2023. As of 17 September NERC reported 6,838 people displaced and 170,000 affected across 5 districts.Mon 18 Sep 2023FloodList provided by Copernicus GloFAS
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (36), (2), NASA (4), DesInventar (4), WMO (1), INFORM (2),