EO4MULTIHAZARDS Events Database

 

The EO4MULTIHAZARDS Events Database provides the scientific community with reliable data and promotes comprehensive research efforts on multi-hazard events. The collected datasets come from various sources and are updated automatically or manually when new data becomes available. The following is a list of data sources:

• EMDAT portal provides a REST-API for authorized users to download data.
• EFFIS portal provides a standard and open Web Feature Service (WFS) for downloading datasets.
• British Geological Survey collects events datasets in United Kingdom and uploads new data to the database as it becomes available.

The collected information is available for visualization, but the full dataset is not downloadable due to license restrictions on the input data. Events are accessible via the web interface without restriction, and query results are available for download. Additional information is available on the Web Interface page. For this project, we harmonized the input datasets into a common format to easily compare them. Here, we describe the Web Interface's most important functionalities for exploring event information, visualizing related events, and finding useful Earth Observation (EO) datasets for further analysis. This list of useful EO datasets is composed of the datasets used in the project's case studies and will be maintained by the partners in the future.

Web Interface

The web interface provides access to the EO4MULTIHAZARDS database. On the home page, you can see the overview map, which displays the number of events for each region (NUTS level 2) during the initial time range of 2020–2025. This provides an initial overview and reduces the map's loading time.

Using the filtering tools to run a custom query allows you to display event features on the map and in the table below. These functionalities are described on the Web Interface page.