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.
Contact
Contributors
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- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/joint-research-centre
How to cite
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) (2021): Flood in Sulaymaniyah District, Iraq (2021-11-21). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/8868df15-6a98-437d-b4d8-857ae0615e49
Keywords
CEMS Copernicus Copernicus Emergency Management Service Copernicus Emergency Management Service Rapid Mapping Activation Copernicus EMS Emergency Emergency Management Copernicus Service EMSR551 Rapid Mapping Mapping Flood Iraq IRQ
Data access
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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Lineage information
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Additional information
- Published by
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- Created date
- 2022-01-10
- Modified date
- 2022-01-10
- Issued date
- 2021-11-21
- Landing page
- https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR551
- Language(s)
- English
- Data theme(s)
- Regions and cities, Science and technology
- Update frequency
- unknown
- Identifier
- http://data.europa.eu/89h/8868df15-6a98-437d-b4d8-857ae0615e49
- Popularity
-