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Flood in Djibouti (2019-11-22)

Collection: CEMS-RM : CEMS Rapid Mapping 

Description


Activation time (UTC): 2019-11-22 11:51:00
Event time (UTC): 2019-11-20 21:00:00
Event type: Flood (Riverine flood)

Activation reason:
On the morning of 21 November 2019, the President of Djibouti triggered the ORSEC plan ("Plan d’Organisation des Secours en cas de Catastrophes") following the flooding of several roads and houses in Djibouti (city) and the closing of schools. Local houses are generally unfit to withstand water, even in small quantities.

Reference products: 0
Delineation products: 2
Grading products: 3

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.

Contact

Email
jrc-ems-rapidmapping (at) ec.europa.eu

Contributors

How to cite

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) (2019): Flood in Djibouti (2019-11-22). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/74d8f89c-e402-4c1e-9fa8-3f6ec6bc5d8d

Keywords

Copernicus Copernicus Emergency Management Service Copernicus Emergency Management Service Rapid Mapping Activation Copernicus EMS Copernicus Service DJI Djibouti CEMS Emergency Emergency Management EMSR410 Flood Mapping Rapid Mapping

Data access

Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping Activation [EMSR410]: Flood in Djibouti (2019-11-22)
Use conditions
European Commission reuse notice 
Access conditions
No limitations 
URL 

  • All maps produced in scope of this Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping activation downloadable as georeferenced PDFs, TIFFs and JPEGs together with relevant vector data (SHP, KML) as well.

Spatial coverage

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WKT 
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WKT 
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Lineage information

No additional information

Additional information

Published by
European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Created date
2021-04-19
Modified date
2021-04-19
Issued date
2019-11-22
Landing page
https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR410 
Language(s)
English
Data theme(s)
Regions and cities, Science and technology
Update frequency
unknown
Identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/74d8f89c-e402-4c1e-9fa8-3f6ec6bc5d8d
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