- Type:
- Flood
- Date:
- January 20, 2020 CE
- Location:
- Barcelona, Girona, Tarragona, Alicante/Alacant, Castellón/Castelló, Valencia/València, Eivissa y Formentera, Mallorca, Menorca, Málaga, Murcia
- Deaths:
- 7
Cross-catalog records
This event is recorded in 3 separate scientific catalogs, each of which may give a different magnitude (the disagreement between catalogs is itself valuable for research):
- HANZE_FLOOD
- HANZE_FLOOD
- DFO_FLOOD
Other flood records of 2020 CE
- Uganda · 12,000 deaths
- Nigeria · 155 deaths
- Viet Nam · 75 deaths
- Haiti · 72 deaths
- Philippines, Viet Nam · 61 deaths
- Indonesia · 53 deaths
Source: Paprotny, D. et al., HANZE v2 — Historical Analysis of Natural Hazards in Europe, Zenodo · License: CC BY 4.0 · institutional record ↗
Frequently asked questions
- When did Estuarine (Coastal) Flooding: Spain (2020-01-20) (2020 CE) happen?
- January 20, 2020 CE.
- Where does this information come from?
- This record comes from Paprotny, D. et al., HANZE v2 — Historical Analysis of Natural Hazards in Europe, Zenodo; it was not hand-authored and is stored together with its source.
- How many people died?
- Recorded estimate: 7. Historical death tolls vary by source.