Description
Activation time (UTC): 2021-11-21 23:30:00
Event time (UTC): 2021-11-20 00:00:00
Event type: Flood (Riverine flood)
Activation reason:
A destructive flood struck Sulaymaniyyah District in the Kurdish region of Iraq, due to intense rainfall. This area is particularly sensitive to floods because large and densely built-up areas exist in a floodplain located at the food of a large (70 Kmq) catchment. In the last year thousand of people were affected by floods after very intense rainfall.
Reference products: 1
Delineation products: 2
Grading products: 1
Copernicus Emergency Management Service - Mapping is a service funded by European Commission aimed at providing actors in the management of natural and man-made disasters, in particular Civil Protection Authorities and Humanitarian Aid actors, with mapping products based on satellite imagery.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 61 | https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR551 |
Tags
- emergency-management
- emsr551
- emergency
- copernicus-service
- copernicus
- copernicus-emergency-management-service-rapid-mapping-activation
- flood
- cems
- iraq
- irq
- copernicus-emergency-management-service
- rapid-mapping
- mapping
- copernicus-ems
Topics
- REGI
- TECH