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Disaster TO - Tornadoes TC - Tropical Cyclone TS - Tsunami VW - Violent Wind VO - Volcano WV - Wave/Surge(use TS/SS instead) WF - Wild fire Use Ctrl-Click and/or Shift-Click for multiple selections. If NO selections are made, ALL items will be selected Type keywords:      Looking for: All Words Any Word Search between these dates: (yyyy-mm-dd) From: To: Hits per page: 10 25 50 100 200      Sorted by: GLIDE Country, Event, Date Country, Date, Event Event, Country, Date Event, Date, Country Date, Country, Event Date, Event, Country Showing approximate location of disasters Search Results: 8692 hits 348 Pages: 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 GLIDEnumber Event Country Comments TC-2008-000237-IND Tropical Cyclone India Over 800,000 people are affected and around 100,000 people have been evacuated in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. As of this morning, 54 people have lost their lives while media reports say that 89 lives were lost in Tamil Nadu. Roads, buildings and cropped area have been severely damaged.  TC-2008-000237-LKA Tropical Cyclone Sri Lanka Due to the heavy rainfall triggered by tropical cyclone passed over northen part of Sri lanka on 25-26 November, 140,853 people were affected and 1,941 houses were totally damaged.   CW-2008-000236-COL Cold Wave Colombia Second cold wave in 255 municipalities of 26 departments of Colombia caused death of 34 people and affected 588,417.   FL-2008-000235-THA Flood Thailand 201434 people affected, 10 people died and 190 families homeless (685 persons)from haevy rain.  FL-2008-000234-BRA Flood Brazil Twenty people have been killed and some 16,000 left homeless in a fierce storm that has lingered in southern Brazil over the past few days. The storm has affected some 1.5 million people. Four cities in Santa Catarina were cut off from surrounding areas due to the storm, which has also downed power and water lines and caused food shortage in many regions.   FF-2008-000233-PHL Flash Flood Philippines Continuous heavy rains caused flash floods in Cagayan, Isabela and Aurora Provonces, over 146,000 affected.   FL-2008-000232-CRI Flood Costa Rica 224 persons were evacuated to shelters due to floods caused by a cold wave in the Caribban coast of Costa Rica.  FL-2008-000231-PAN Flood Panama 148 people were affected by floods in the province of Bocas del Toro, Panama, and 18 lost their homes.  FL-2008-000230-CUB Flood Cuba As a result of the fourth cold front of the winter Season, which passed over the Eastern region of Cuba from the 17th to the 20th of November 2008, torrential rains fell on the region which caused severe flooding in the areas of Holguin and Granma provinces. As a result of the rains, which in the mountainous zones of Holguin and Sagua-Nipe-Baracoa Plateau reached precipitation levels of 600 millimeters, thousands of hectares of crops have been flooded and Civil Defense needed to evacuate thousands of people in the provinces of Holguin and Granma. All of the evacuees were attended to by local authorities.   TC-2008-000229-VNM Tropical Cyclone Viet Nam Vietnam's government issued flash flood and landslide warnings on Tuesday(18/11/2008) as heavy rains followed tropical storm Noul, which weakened overnight and caused no damage to coffee production - Reuters  FF-2008-000227-ETH Flash Flood Ethiopia A river in Ethiopia's highlands burst its banks after heavy rains, killing 11 people and stranding hundreds more, the state news agency said on Monday. Some 6,000 head of livestock and 2,500 hectares of crop were destroyed, the official added.   EQ-2008-000226-IDN Earthquake Indonesia A 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the Minhasa region of Indonesia's Sulawesi island. Indonesian authorities issued a tsunami warning.  WF-2008-000225-USA Wild fire United States More than 10,000 people were ordered to evacuate and more than 6,500 acres burned in Los Angeles, USA.  ST-2008-000224-BOL SEVERE LOCAL STORM Bolivia On 8 and 9 November, thunderstorms and hailstorms affected 1331 families in the Department of Tarija.  LS-2008-000223-IDN Land Slide Indonesia Five people have been killed and 14 are feared dead after a landslide triggered by heavy rain crushed scores of houses in Indonesia. About 700 residents have been evacuated to safer areas.  TC-2008-000222-PHL Tropical Cyclone Philippines NDCC reports Tropical Storm QUINTA (Maysak) caused floods, kille 12 in lloilo, Surigao del Norte.  FL-2008-000221-IDN Flood Indonesia 77,196 for Jakarta proper and a combined total of 218,583 for nearby West Java and Banten provinces are displaced by the flood. According to the National Disaster Coordination Agency, 48 died from the flood.  VO-2008-000220-COL Volcano Colombia On Sunday, 9 November approximately 375 tremors were felt near the Machin volcano in the department of Tolima. The Machin volcano is currently at level three (yellow alert) and it is considered to be the most dangerous volcano in Colombia. The Nevado del Huila volcano has also been demonstrating an increase in activity since 7 November. During the past two days a total of 3,290 tremors were registered.Currently, the Nevado del Huila volcano is at level two (orange alert), which means a probable eruption can be expected in the next days or weeks.   EP-2008-000219-MOZ Epidemic Mozambique A cholera outbreak has been reported in Guro District, Manica province with the local health authority issuing an urgent appeal for assistance. Since the 1st of November, 216 cases with 51 deaths have been registered. 59 cases and 1 death have been reported in Zamb?zia province. In Tete province (Tete City, Chi?ta, Changara and Macanga), 72 cases have been reported and no deaths were registered.  EP-2008-000218-ZWE Epidemic Zimbabwe A cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe has claimed 42 lives and 1194 have been infected in the past 3 months.  FL-2008-000217-KEN Flood Kenya A seasonal river that cuts through Mandera town in North Eastern Province burst its banks on 13 October 2008, for the first time since 2000. This was followed by heavy rains that lasted over a week causing River Daua to burst its banks. Floods in the entire town and adjacent residential areas have left at least 920 households displaced in Mandera town alone.   FF-2008-000216-PSE Flash Flood Palestine (West Bank, Gaza) From the early afternoon of 27 October 2008 and the following 36 hours, torrential rains hit the Gaza Strip, causing heavy floods in huge parts of this densely populated and poor area.  AC-2008-000215-HTI Tech. Disaster Haiti On Friday 07 November 2008, around 10:00am (1500 GMT) the upper storey of La Promesse College situated in Petion Ville (Port au Prince) collapsed during morning classes, crushing all of the classrooms on the ground level leaving many students and teachers dead and some wounded under blocks of concrete.  TC-2008-000214-BHS Tropical Cyclone Bahamas Jamaica and the central Bahamas should closely monitor the progress of Paloma.  TC-2008-000214-CUB Tropical Cyclone Cuba According to the National Hurricane Centre (NHC), tropical storm Paloma became a category one hurricane on 7 November 2008 and it is expected to become a category two or possibly a category three hurricane by Saturday, 8 November. A hurricane warning has been issued for the Cayman Islands and a hurricane watch was issued by the Cuban government in several provinces including Sancti Spiritus, Ciego de Avila, Camaguey, Las Tunas and Granma.  8692 hits 348 Pages: 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170	GLIDEnumber: About Glide How to Join Participating Institutions GLIDE-enabled sites Help Topics Disclaimer Get results as: Statistics Charts Tabular Reports Report a Missing Disaster:   If you know about a disaster that is not registered in GLIDEnumber.net: Create/Edit missing disaster report Please note you need to be a registered user to report missing disasters Latest Events: Disasters on or after week 16 From: 2026/4/12  To: 2026/4/23 WF-2026-000060-JPN Wild fire,Japan: Wildfires broke out Wednesday at two sites in the same town in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, prompting local authorities to urge over 1,000 residents to evacuate, while requesting assistance from the Self-Defense Forces to fight the flames. EQ-2026-000057-JPN Earthquake,Japan: GDACS - Medium humanitarian impact, magnitude 7.4M tsunami generates 1.01m FL-2026-000059-NZL Flood,New Zealand: Wellington flooding: Thousands ordered to evacuate homes in New Zealand capital after worst rainfall ever recorded. Wellington declared a state of emergency on Monday after torrential rainfall battered New Zealand's capital city overnight. ST-2026-000061-THA SEVERE LOCAL STORM,Thailand: Very strong winds, thunderstorms and hailstorms affected south-eastern Thailand (mainly the Nakhon Phanom, Ubon Ratchathani, Buriram and Sisaket provinces) and several provinces in the north-west of the country over 14-16 April, causing a number of severe weather-related incidents that have resulted in casualties and damage. FL-2026-000056-CAN Flood,Canada: Thousands of Canadians across the country spent the weekend in a desperate struggle with rising floodwaters caused by unusually persistent rainfall. Nearly 1,900 homes have been flooded in 126 municipalities in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario. On Sunday, Montreal became the latest city in Quebec to declare a state of emergency after three dikes gave way in the Pierrefonds-Roxboro borough, in the north end of the city by the Rivieres des Prairies. Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre said homes have been evacuated in that borough as well as on two nearby islands. Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said that the military response to flooding in Quebec is likely to balloon. "At the moment, since yesterday, there are 450 Canadian forces personnel on the ground in various locations across Quebec," Goodale told CTV's "Question Period" on Sunday. "We have over 100 firemen who are working 24 hours a day, visiting door to door and making some evacuations," he said. West of Montreal, the small town of Rigaud issued a mandatory evacuation order Sunday and a state of emergency has been in place for several days. In Gatineau, Que., near the border with Ontario, 380 residences were evacuated and officials want to evacuate another 900 homes Sunday. The situation in Ontario seems to be "generally stabilizing," although there are many unstable local circumstances, he said. In Atlantic Canada, some parts of New Brunswick recorded more than 150 millimetres of rain after a nearly 36 hour non-stop downpour. A weather station northeast of Saint John, N.B., measured 155 millimetres of precipitation from late Friday to early Sunday, Environment Canada meteorologist Stephen Fougere said Sunday, adding that surrounding areas had up to 125 millimetres. While the deluge has tapered off in the province, New Brunswick's St. John River is spilling its banks, prompting several road closures. TC-2026-000051-PNG Tropical Cyclone,Papua New Guinea: Over 10-11 April, tropical cyclone MAILA continued moving very slowly over the Solomon Sea, with maximum sustained winds up to 130 km/h, further weakening into a tropical storm and dissipating. Its passage over the Solomon Sea caused very heavy rainfall, strong winds and consequent floods, landslides and severe weather-related incidents across eastern Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.