Cook Islands - GLIDE Disaster Events: Geospatial Disaster Records

A collection of disaster event records for the Cook Islands using the GLIDE (GLobal unique IDEntifier for Disasters) system. The data is provided by the GLIDE Initiative and was last updated on 2026-06-23. It aims to make disaster information interoperable across sources like UN-OCHA, UNDRR, and IFRC.

Use Cases

• Cross-reference disaster impacts across international agency reports based on GLIDE numbers.
• Map historical disaster events in the Cook Islands based on geospatial coordinates.
• Analyze disaster frequency and types in a specific region based on event categorization.
• Integrate disaster event data into humanitarian information systems based on the common identifier.

Strengths

• Uses a globally recognized identifier (GLIDE) adopted by major organizations like UN-OCHA and IFRC.
• Data is available in both GEOJSON and CSV formats, offering flexibility for different analyses.
• Last updated on 2026-06-23, suggesting relatively recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.

Provenance

Source

GLIDE Initiative

Collection Method

Registered disaster records from multiple structured and textual sources.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-23 23:51:45.031891; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Cook Islands