Kazakhstan GLIDE Disaster Events: Unique Identifiers for Disasters

GLIDEnumbers are GLobal unique IDEntifiers for Disasters designed to make disaster information interoperable across multiple sources. The Asian Disaster Reduction Center proposed this common ID to address the time-consuming task of accessing scattered and confusing disaster data. This dataset, last updated in June 2026, contains disaster events for Kazakhstan under the CC-BY-3.0-IGO license.

Use Cases

• Link disaster reports across different organizations based on the common GLIDE identifier.
• Analyze disaster frequency and types in Kazakhstan based on registered event records.
• Map disaster events geographically based on the available GEOJSON format.
• Standardize disaster data integration for research or operational dashboards based on the interoperable ID system.

Strengths

• Uses a globally recognized identifier system (GLIDE) adopted by major organizations like UN-OCHA, UNDRR, and IFRC.
• Available in structured formats (CSV, GEOJSON) facilitating machine-readability.
• Last updated date is explicitly provided (2026-06-23).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

GLIDE Initiative

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-23 23:53:48.400577; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Kazakhstan