Description
Activation time (UTC): 2020-09-19 09:46:00
Event time (UTC): 2020-09-18 18:30:00
Event type: Flood (Flash flood)
Activation reason:
Due to extensive rainfall caused by the Mediterranean hurricane (medicane) “Ianos”, many areas of Thessaly region have been flooded. Extensive damages are reported in agricultural land, urban areas of Farsala, Mouzaki and Karditsa cities and also on the road network of the wider area. At least two people died and two are declared as missing.
The Fire Service has received 630 calls for help and has proceed to 450 rescue operations and 120 flood water pumping operations in urban areas.
Reference products: 0
Delineation products: 2
Grading products: 7
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/jrc/en
How to cite
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) (2020): Floods in Thessaly Region, Greece (2020-09-19). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/6c0a1a1c-9ff6-40a0-9cdb-11f78cc4d141
Keywords
CEMS Copernicus Emergency Management Service Copernicus Copernicus Emergency Management Service Rapid Mapping Activation Copernicus EMS Copernicus Service EMSR465 Flood GRC Greece Mapping Rapid Mapping Emergency Emergency Management
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
Type | Value |
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GEO | POLYGON((21.440334376269 39.660971486204,22.50527886286 39.660971486204,22.50527886286 39.094400292926,21.440334376269 39.094400292926,21.440334376269 39.660971486204)) |
GEO | {"type":"Polygon","crs":{"type":"name","properties":{"name":"urn:ogc:def:crs:OGC:1.3:CRS84"}},"coordinates":[[[21.4403343762691,39.6609714862036],[22.5052788628597,39.6609714862036],[22.5052788628597,39.0944002929257],[21.4403343762691,39.0944002929257],[21.4403343762691,39.6609714862036]]]} |
Lineage information
No additional information
Additional information
- Published by
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- Created date
- 2021-04-23
- Modified date
- 2021-04-19
- Issued date
- 2020-09-19
- Landing page
- https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR465
- Language(s)
- English
- Data theme(s)
- Regions and cities, Science and technology
- Update frequency
- unknown
- Identifier
- http://data.europa.eu/89h/6c0a1a1c-9ff6-40a0-9cdb-11f78cc4d141
- Popularity
- 27 Jan 2023: 1 visits