Title: Floods in Peru (2017-03-22)
Activation time (UTC): 2017-03-22 10:08:00 Event time (UTC): 2017-03-22 10:00:00 Event type: Flood
Activation reason:
Since mid-March 2017 heavy rains have affected nearly all of Peru leading to catastrophic flooding and landslides. Tens of people have lost their lives and tens of thousands are homeless. There has been significant damage to infrastructure, with many bridges down, and homes. States of Emergency have been declared in many regions due to the worst flooding in many years.
Reference products: 11 Delineation products: 19 Grading products: 15
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.
Data access
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Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping Activation [EMSR199]: Floods in Peru (2017-03-22)
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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.
| Issue date | 2017-03-22 |
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| Landing page | https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR199 |
| Language | English |
| Data theme(s) | Regions and cities; Science and technology |
| EuroVoc domain(s) | 72 GEOGRAPHY |
| Identifier | http://data.europa.eu/89h/1db5000a-d1e7-45aa-9872-8948766bba3b |
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| Geographic bounding box | -3.66103676906° N, -73.1582073119° E, -12.104877869° S, -80.8892905451° W |
| Coordinate Reference System | ETRS89 / LAEA Europe |
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