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Disaster Alert Archive

Accumulating archive of GDACS disaster alerts, held event by event: earthquakes, tropical cyclones, floods, volcanoes, droughts, wildfires and tsunamis, each with its alert level (Green, Orange, Red), alert score, severity and unit, coordinates, dates, primary and affected countries, and every episode GDACS issued as the event evolved. The live feed is a window that drops an event once it ends; PRISM writes each refresh into the archive before serving it, and walked the search endpoint for the history: floods from 2000, cyclones from 2008, volcanoes from 2011, earthquakes from August 2013, droughts from 2017 and wildfires from 2024, each the start of GDACS's own record except earthquakes, cut at 2013 by PRISM. Insert-and-update, never delete: an event revised upstream is updated in place, an episode once recorded is never rewritten, nothing is removed.

Geographic coverageGlobal; country-tagged with coordinates, affected countries listed per event
Temporal coverageFloods from 2000, cyclones 2008, volcanoes 2011, earthquakes August 2013, droughts 2017, wildfires 2024; accumulating since September 2026
Update cadenceLive feed synced hourly; insert-and-update, never delete
AccessCountry analysis (Climate tab) and the per-country history API
LicenceGDACS data © the European Commission Joint Research Centre and UN OCHA, open for use with attribution; the compilation CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cite this dataset
PRISM (2026). Disaster Alert Archive. PRISM, Protection, Risk & Impact Severity Monitor. Version 5.0. GDACS data © the European Commission Joint Research Centre and UN OCHA, open for use with attribution; the compilation CC BY-SA 4.0. Retrieved 2026-09-10, from https://www.prismonitor.eu/data/gdacs-archive
Download .bib.ris · version 5.0 · retrieved 2026-09-10
GDACS disaster alerts, EC JRC / UN OCHA, preserved and served by PRISM. https://www.prismonitor.eu/data/gdacs-archive — cite GDACS as the source of the underlying alerts.
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