India - GLIDE Disaster Events: Geospatial Disaster Identifiers

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

Use Cases

• Track disaster occurrences across borders based on the GLIDE unique identifier system.
• Integrate disaster information from multiple structured and textual sources using the common ID.
• Analyze disaster frequency and impact in India based on registered event records.

Strengths

• Uses a globally recognized unique identifier (GLIDE) adopted by major institutions like UN-OCHA and FAO.
• Data is available in both CSV and GEOJSON formats, supporting different analysis workflows.
• Released under the CC-BY-3.0-IGO license, permitting broad reuse with attribution.

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.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

GLIDE Initiative

Collection Method

Registered disaster records compiled for interoperability.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-23 23:53:30.799954; freshness should be verified.

Geography

India