New Zealand GLIDE Disaster Events: Unique Disaster Identifiers

GLIDE Initiative provides GLIDEnumbers, which are GLobal unique IDEntifiers for Disasters, to enable interoperability across multiple disaster information sources. The dataset contains registered disaster events for New Zealand. It was last updated on 2026-06-23.

Use Cases

• Link disaster-related data across different sources based on the unique GLIDEnumber.
• Analyze disaster event frequency and distribution in New Zealand based on the geospatial data.
• Support disaster risk reduction planning by providing a standardized event catalog.

Strengths

• Data is interoperable across many major institutions, including UN-OCHA, UNDRR, and IFRC.
• Available in both GEOJSON and CSV formats, offering flexibility for different analysis tools.
• Licensed under CC-BY-3.0-IGO, allowing for broad reuse.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

GLIDE Initiative

Collection Method

Disasters are registered in a record containing a GLIDEnumber.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-23 23:55:37.202403; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New Zealand