Overall Orange Flood alert in Zimbabwe from 14 Mar 2019 00:00 UTC to 24 Mar 2019 00:00 UTC

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Overall Orange alert Flood

in Zimbabwe

Event summary

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

GDACS ID	FL 1000228
Death:	102
Displaced:	3692
Countries:	Zimbabwe
From - To	14 Mar - 24 Mar

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Virtual OSOCC

Meteo assessment

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Analytical products

Flood in Zimbabwe - Copernicus EMS activation (EMSR349)Mon, 18 Mar 2019 02:45

EMSR349: Copernicus Emergency Management Service has been activated

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),

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