Flooding News
An embankment on the Kholpetua River has in south-west Bangladesh, leaving 16 villages under water and 2,000 families marooned. The collapsed occurred during the evening of Sunday 22 March 2015,…
Six days of heavy rain have left several provinces in Ecuador suffering from overflowing rivers, flash floods and landslides. The severe weather has been blamed for the deaths of at…
Five people have been killed in floods in Dar es Salaam region of Tanzania since Friday 20 March 2015, according to Regional Commissioner, Mr Saidi Meck Sadiki. This recent flood…
Heavy rain on 20 March 2015 brought flooding to the streets of São Paulo, Brazil. Some areas were under 50cm of water. The rainfall lasted a few hours in an…
The rain and melting snow during March 2015 increased levels of the Ohio River to some of the highest seen since in almost 20 years. On Sunday 15 March, The…
The severe weather that caused flooding in Michoacán and Guerrero has also caused problems in neighbouring states in southern Mexico, increasing river levels in Colima and Jalisco and causing further…
More than 20,000 people have been affected by flooding caused by the swollen Purus River in Boca do Acre in Amazonas State, Brazil. Local authorities have declared a state of…
Two days of constant heavy rain in south-west Mexico has resulted in flooding in parts of Michoacán and Guerrero states. Michoacán The heavy rain first began to fall on 15…
UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, announced on 17 March 2015 that it will begin relocating more than 50,000 South Sudanese refugees from flood-prone areas of western Ethiopia to avoid flood…
BNPD, the disaster management agency in Indonesia, said yesterday that an embankment on the Cimanuk river had been breached, forcing around 4,000 people from their homes. The embankment failure occurred…
The Ohio River at Cincinnati reached 57.72 feet on Sunday 15 March 2015, the highest level since March 1997 when it stood at 64.7 feet. According to NWS predictions, the…
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced on 13 March 2015 that federal disaster aid has been made available to the State of Maine after…
Local media are reporting that at least 60 people have been killed in floods in Lobito, Angola. This is the second major flood event in a week. One person died…
The regional units of Evros and Serres in northern Greece have suffered further flooding after several days of rain, leaving around 5,000 hectares of farmland underwater. Dozens of villages in…
Heavy rain on Monday 09 March 2015 flooded at least 3 municipalities of Luanda, the capital of Angola. According to Angola news agency ANGOP, Luanda fire department have reported the…
Local authorities have declared a State of Emergency throughout the province of Tucumán in northwest Argentina after several days of heavy rainfall caused rivers to overflow and increased the threat…
