Description
Activation time (UTC): 2016-08-08 11:44:00
Event time (UTC): 2016-08-07 18:00:00
Event type: Flood
Activation reason:
On 6 August 2016, the city of Skopje has been affected by heavy rain, lightening and strong winds. Large parts of the city have been flooded, particularly in the northern suburbs. The most affected areas are the villages of Stajkovci and Haracinovo, as well as Skopje's suburbs of Butel, Cento and upper Lisice. The water level reached 1.5 meters, with houses and streets under water. More than 1.000 people are evacuated and 22 victims have been confirmed by governmental authorities.
Reference products: 8
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) (2016): Flood in Skopje (2016-08-08). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/6d6f0dab-61d3-40d3-8ca5-bf0ca9b8fde9
Keywords
Copernicus Copernicus Emergency Management Service CEMS Copernicus Emergency Management Service Rapid Mapping Activation Copernicus EMS Copernicus Service Emergency Emergency Management EMSR174 Flood Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Mapping MKD 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
Type | Value |
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GEO | POLYGON((21.319690969186 42.062900959225,21.616312348764 42.062900959225,21.616312348764 41.942564721839,21.319690969186 41.942564721839,21.319690969186 42.062900959225)) |
GEO | {"type":"Polygon","crs":{"type":"name","properties":{"name":"urn:ogc:def:crs:OGC:1.3:CRS84"}},"coordinates":[[[21.3196909691863,42.0629009592246],[21.6163123487636,42.0629009592246],[21.6163123487636,41.9425647218385],[21.3196909691863,41.9425647218385],[21.3196909691863,42.0629009592246]]]} |
Lineage information
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Additional information
- Published by
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- Created date
- 2021-04-23
- Modified date
- 2021-04-19
- Issued date
- 2016-08-08
- Landing page
- https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR174
- Language(s)
- English
- Data theme(s)
- Regions and cities, Science and technology
- Update frequency
- unknown
- Identifier
- http://data.europa.eu/89h/6d6f0dab-61d3-40d3-8ca5-bf0ca9b8fde9
- Popularity
-