Floods Hit Somalia
Flood
How the score is calculated
The score starts at 8. It adds points from recorded affected, deaths, displaced and casualty counts, plus terms found in the story title, event type or status. For each count, only its highest matching band is used.
- Affected people
- 1–999: +5 · 1,000–9,999: +12 · 10,000–99,999: +20 · 100,000–999,999: +28 · 1 million+: +35
- Deaths
- 1–9: +8 · 10–99: +14 · 100–999: +22 · 1,000+: +30
- Displaced people
- 1–9,999: +6 · 10,000–99,999: +12 · 100,000+: +18
- Casualties
- 100 or more: +8
- Story wording
- +10 for terms such as catastrophe, famine, war, conflict, major earthquake, mass casualty or critical. Otherwise, +5 for active, ongoing, emergency, outbreak, cyclone or hurricane.
Score bands: Watch 0–24 · Moderate 25–49 · High 50–74 · Critical 75–100. Scores are capped at 100. Missing or unparseable figures add no points.
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In brief
- What happenedHeavy rains have hit various parts of the country triggering flash floods which have killed and displaced people, but a forecast suggests the rains will begin to subside from mid-May. • Reports indicate that at least 25 people have been killed due to the heavy rains including nine children who died after their house
- How many affectedAffected persons: 25,000 · Displaced persons: 3,500 · Deaths: 25
- What help is neededResponse priorities should be confirmed in the linked source reports as needs change.
What changed
First retained snapshot
No earlier verified snapshot is present in the recovered dataset. This record remains available as the historical baseline.
Situation
Heavy rains have hit various parts of the country triggering flash floods which have killed and displaced people, but a forecast suggests the rains will begin to subside from mid-May. • Reports indicate that at least 25 people have been killed due to the heavy rains including nine children who died after their house
WorldsAid verification
A WorldsAid editor reviewed this record against 1 attributed source, cleaned feed formatting and checked the event, place and reporting date. 3 human-impact figures were separated from the narrative and dated where the source allowed. Earlier observations remain in the evidence history instead of being silently overwritten.
Verified figures
- Affected persons
- 25,000 retained at 2021-05-12
- Displaced persons
- 3,500 retained at 2021-05-12
- Deaths
- 25 retained at 2021-05-12
What we knew when
- WorldsAid record entered the retained historical dataset.
- Last verification represented by this immutable snapshot.
Earlier figures are never replaced by later values; additional observations are retained as new ledger entries.
Provenance
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Cached dataset: worldsai_drup771.sql.gz
Verified
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