United Republic of Tanzania - GLIDE Disaster Events

GLIDE Initiative provides a dataset of disaster events in Tanzania using GLIDEnumbers, which are globally unique identifiers for disasters. The data is used by institutions including UN-OCHA, UNDRR, IFRC, and the European Commission to enable interoperability across disaster information sources. The dataset is available in GEOJSON and CSV formats and was last updated on 2026-06-23.

Use Cases

• Cross-reference disaster impacts across multiple reporting sources based on the GLIDEnumber system.
• Analyze disaster event frequency and location in Tanzania based on the geospatial data.
• Integrate disaster records into structured databases based on the interoperable identifier standard.

Strengths

• Uses the GLIDEnumber standard, which is actively adopted by major international organizations like UN-OCHA and IFRC.
• Available in both GEOJSON and CSV formats, offering flexibility for different analysis workflows.
• License is CC-BY-3.0-IGO, which permits sharing and adaptation for humanitarian purposes.

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; the last update timestamp is 2026-06-23 23:57:42.273818.

Provenance

Source

GLIDE Initiative

Collection Method

Registered disaster events assigned a globally unique identifier (GLIDEnumber).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-23 23:57:42.273818.

Geography

United Republic of Tanzania