Disaster authorities in Ecuador report that around 350 families have been affected by flooding from overflowing rivers in Pastaza Province. According to Ecuador’s National Risk and Emergency Management Service (SNGRE)…
Disaster authorities in Ecuador report that heavy rain over the last few days has triggered flooding in Manabí, El Oro and Morona Santiago Provinces. Around 200 people have been affected…
Following the severe weather in Arequipa in the south of the country, flooding has also affected parts of northern Peru over the last few days. Andina news agency reported that…
Heavy rainfall in south east Ecuador has caused flooding and landslides in Morona-Santiago Province. According to Ecuador’s National Risk and Emergency Management Service (SNGRE), the worst affected area is the…
Ecuador‘s disaster agency has delivered relief supplies to remote communities in Pastaza Province after ongoing river flooding left areas isolated. On 02 November, 2109, Servicio Nacional de Gestión de Riesgos…
More flooding has affected parts of Ecuador, this time in the northern province of Sucumbíos. Around 600 people have been affected in the province in total, with 150 evacuated and…
Ecuador’s emergency management service (Nacional de Gestión de Riesgos y Emergencias – SNGRE), reports that severe flooding and landslides have affected central areas of the country over the last few…
An El Niño that began to form last fall has matured and is now fully entrenched across the Pacific Ocean. Changes in sea surface temperatures (SSTs) brought about by an…
Heavy rain has triggered flooding and landslides in parts of South America over the last few days. Around 70,000 people are currently affected by floods in several departments of Paraguay.…
Disaster authorities in Ecuador say that around 250 people have been affected by flooding in Los Ríos Province since 19 February. Several rivers have also broken their banks in Pastaza…
Emergency management authorities in Ecuador say that heavy rain in western parts of the country has caused severe flooding and landslides in Manabí Province from 09 February, 2019. National Risk…
Heavy rain and landslides in Morona Santiago Province, Ecuador, have left at least 9 people dead and 8 injured. Authorities say 6 homes were destroyed. The landslides struck in Limon…
Heavy rain in Ecuador over the last few days has caused flooding in Imbabura Province and floods and landslides in parts of El Oro Province. According to the country’s risk…
Countries bordering on the Pacific Ocean are testing their capacity to handle a major tsunami in an exercise from 15 to 17 February, held to identify possible shortcomings in the…
In 1996, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) launched a comprehensive agenda for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) throughout the Latin America and the…
The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) aim to reduce disaster losses in some of the world’s most hazard prone cities…
