Overall Green alert Flood for Pakistan
in Pakistan

Event summary

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

GDACS ID FL 1100546
Death: 13
Displaced: -
Countries: Pakistan
From - To 26 Jul - 28 Jul

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Karachi, Pakistan, Late July 2020Heavy rainfall from 26 July 2020 caused flash flooding and urban flooding in parts of the city of Karachi and surrounding areas. As of 28 July media reported 10 fatalities caused by collapsing buildings or electrocution.Sun 26 Jul 2020FloodList provided by Copernicus GLOFAS
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Articles: 4 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Covid and climate disasters in South AsiaThu, 23 Jul 2020 16:22:00 +0200.

Response measures have forced coastal communities in South Asia to choose between a super cyclonic storm or shelters with no physical distancing. South Asia, one of the world's poorest and populous regions of the world, is struggling with c
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Cyclones, locust attacks: Climate disasters, COVID-19 pose dual challe ... Thu, 23 Jul 2020 14:30:00 +0200.

South Asia, one of the world’s poorest and populous regions, is struggling with control measures as the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases continue to rise. This public health crisis is being compounded by a swathe of climate-relate
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Sustainability, Vol. 12, Pages 5784: Use of Sentinel-1 GRD SAR Images ... Fri, 17 Jul 2020 16:28:00 +0200.

Floods are some of the most serious and devastating natural hazards on earth, bringing huge threats to lives, properties, and living environments. Rapid delineation of the spatial extent of flooding is of great importance for the dynamic mo
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We stand by people in time of pandemic, flood, earthquake: PerveenSun, 05 Jul 2020 06:14:00 +0200.

LAHORE - Wife of Governor Punjab and Vice-Chairperson Sarwar Foundation (SF), Perveen Sarwar has said that we have installed 16 new water filtration plants during COVID-19 crisis to provide relief to people. We stand by people in time of pa
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (36), (2), NASA (7), WMO (1), INFORM (2),