Description
Activation time (UTC): 2018-10-25 15:00:00
Event time (UTC): 2018-10-18 22:00:00
Event type: Flood (Flash flood)
Activation reason:
From the late evening of 18th October, for a few hours an intense weather event with heavy rain occurred in Sicily. The most affected area was the south-eastern part of the region. In the previous days the area had already been affected by heavy rainfall. The highest intensity of precipitation has been recorded by the rain gauge of Palagonia (Catania) with 240 mm of rain recorded in a few hours.
Reference products: 0
Delineation products: 7
Grading products: 2
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) (2018): Flood in Sicily, Italy (2018-10-25). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/98a1400a-ccdf-4d2a-9baf-1889b7f0dcdf
Keywords
CEMS Copernicus Copernicus Emergency Management Service Rapid Mapping Activation Copernicus EMS Copernicus Service Emergency Emergency Management EMSR330 Flood ITA Italy Mapping Copernicus Emergency Management Service Rapid Mapping
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
- 2021-04-19
- Modified date
- 2021-04-19
- Issued date
- 2018-10-25
- Landing page
- https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR330
- Language(s)
- English
- Data theme(s)
- Regions and cities, Science and technology
- Update frequency
- unknown
- Identifier
- http://data.europa.eu/89h/98a1400a-ccdf-4d2a-9baf-1889b7f0dcdf
- Popularity
-