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INDONESIA Continued heavy rains caused more flooding and landslides across Indonesia. Flooding has killed one person and damaged 30 houses in West Sumatra Province and inundated 372 houses in Riau...

Description of the event Monsoon rains in Sri Lanka caused a landslide on 29 October 2014, which is believed to have killed over a hundred people. The landslide occurred near the town of Haldummulla...

SRI LANKA As of 5 Nov 2014, the Disaster Management Center (DMC) reported that search and rescue teams have recovered 10 bodies at the Koslanda tea plantation in Badulla estate. The DMC reported...

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SRI LANKA On 29 October a landslide occurred at the Koslanda tea plantation in Badulla district, about 220 km east of Colombo. The Disaster Management Centre (DMC) reported 1,067 people (320...

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INDIA On 12 Oct, Cyclone Hud Hud made landfall in the vicinity of Visakhapatnam City in the state of Andhra Pradesh with wind speeds of between 180-195 kph and 2-3 metre waves pounding the coast. At...

INDIA Floods in Assam and Meghalaya States in north eastern India which commenced on 20 Sep have claimed 95 lives and left tens of thousands of people homeless. The worst affected areas are the...

Asia-Pacific Humanitarian Bulletin January - June 2014

THE PHILIPPINES According to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), as of 18 Jul, Typhoon Rammasun affected 882,300 people in Regions I, III, IV-A, IV-B, V, VIII, and...

SRI LANKA Following flash floods and landslides caused by above average monsoon rains at the beginning of June, the Disaster Management Centre reports that 27 people died and nine people injured...

SRI LANKA Following flash floods and landslides due to heavy rain that occurred in southwest Sri Lanka at the beginning of June 2014, the Government has reported that 24 people died, 10 people were...

NASA’s Real-time TRMM Data for 6 – 8th June 2014 Though there was a shift in monsoonal rainfall in the beginning of the last week, we still notice hotspots in the Western, Southern and Central...

NASA’s Real-time TRMM Data for 4th and 5th June 2014 Beginning of extreme rainfall from June 1, 2014 in Western Province has significantly reduced on 5th June 2014 as noticed in the image. Comparing...

NASA’ Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) real-time data indicates extraordinary flooding is related to unusually strong monsoonal rainfall. During the days of 31 May – June 4, 2014...