Sri Lanka - GLIDE Disaster Events: Unique Identifiers for Disasters
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Description
GLIDEnumbers are GLobal unique IDEntifiers for Disasters registered by the Asian Disaster Reduction Center. The dataset likely contains records of disaster events in Sri Lanka, uniquely identified to enable interoperability across sources like UN-OCHA, UNDRR, and IFRC. It was last updated on 2026-06-23.
Use Cases
Link disaster reports across different agencies based on the common GLIDE identifier.
Analyze disaster frequency and types in Sri Lanka based on the event registry.
Integrate structured and textual disaster information from multiple sources using the unique ID.
Strengths
Uses a globally recognized unique identifier (GLIDEnumber) for disaster interoperability.
Adopted by major international organizations including UN-OCHA, UNDRR, and IFRC.
Available in both GEOJSON and CSV formats for different analysis needs.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Freshness should be verified as the last update is in the future (2026-06-23).