Overall Green alert Flood
in Myanmar

Event summary

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

GDACS ID FL 1102658
Death: 1
Displaced: 100
Countries: Myanmar
From - To 28 May - 30 May

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Myanmar, Late May 2024Myanmar Fire Services Department and local media reported flooding in areas of Kachin State in late May 2024. Strong winds likely associated with Cyclone Remal also caused damage in areas of the the country at this time.Fri 31 May 2024FloodList provided by Copernicus GloFAS
Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Articles: 32 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

SL issues major flood alert as rains continue2024-06-02T12:15+0200.

Colombo, June 2 (UNI) Sri Lanka's Disaster Management Center (DMC) issued a major flood alert in the outskirts of capital Colombo and several other areas of the island as heavy rains lashed across the country on Sunday. The Irrigation Depar
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Climate, Vol. 12, Pages 82: Assessment of the Vulnerability of Househo ... 2024-06-02T10:42+0200.

Farm households along the coastlines of Myanmar and Vietnam are becoming increasingly vulnerable to flooding, saltwater intrusion, and rising sea levels. There is little information available on the relative vulnerability of men- and women-
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Report Shows Asia is Warming Faster Than Global Average2024-05-29T02:24+0200.

In April and May this year, south and southeast Asia were hit by brutal heatwave conditions, which have already claimed dozens of lives, closed schools, destroyed crops, and affected produce. Experts labelled the ongoing heatwave in the reg
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DMH issues warning of heavy rains and strong winds in all regions and ... 2024-05-29T00:55+0200.

The depression will become a cyclonic storm on May 26 and may cross Bangladesh and isolated heavy falls along with strong winds may occur in all regions and states, announced the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology (DMH) on May 25. Acco
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (36), (2), NASA (4), WMO (1), INFORM (2),