I thought a summary of\u00a0 the current levels of known losses from the three big landslide and flood disasters that have greeted the New Year would be helpful:<\/p>\n
1. Brazil<\/strong><\/p>\n The latest update on losses of life in this disaster is as follows, according to the Brazil Civil Defence Agency:<\/p>\n Nova Friburgo: 389 deaths<\/p>\n Teresopolis: 324 deaths<\/p>\n Petropolis: 65 deaths,<\/p>\n Sumidouro: 22 deaths<\/p>\n Other towns: 3 deaths<\/p>\n Total: 803 fatalities, plus another 417 people reported missing.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n 2. Sri Lanka<\/strong><\/p>\n According to Reliefweb<\/a>, the floods and landslides in Sri Lanka have affected over 1 million people, leaving about 40 of them dead.<\/p>\n 3. Philippines<\/strong><\/p>\n Data for the floods across a large swathe of the Philippines are available from NDCC<\/a>.\u00a0 The latest situation report<\/a> suggests that nearly 1.9 million people have been affected, and 68 people dead and a further 23 missing.\u00a0 Of the deaths, 13 people died in landslides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I thought a summary of\u00a0 the current levels of known losses from the three big landslide and flood disasters that have greeted the New Year would be helpful: 1. Brazil The latest update on losses of life in this disaster is as follows, according to the Brazil Civil Defence Agency: Nova Friburgo: 389 deaths Teresopolis: 324 deaths Petropolis: 65 deaths, Sumidouro: 22 deaths Other towns: 3 deaths Total: 803 fatalities, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[102,959,252,82],"class_list":["post-2538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brazil","tag-landslide-report","tag-philippines","tag-sri-lanka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}