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Odisha landslide

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Odisha ·31 Aug 2026

7 Displaced or evacuated Media report 1 source, agreeing

Why this keeps happening

113.8 Rain, 7 daysmm over the region 8 Publishersreporting it

Four readings this page holds, and where each one is explained. Every source behind them.

Where

Odisha — and the river it runs into. Positions are real coordinates; the extent of the event is not known.

The area the satellite frames cover Odisha Odisha

Region named in the reportingDownstream, in the pathThe satellite frame

Frame 498 km wide. The ring is an AREA, not a point: this page knows the region the reporting names and not where inside it the event was. Positions of the downstream places are true.

  1. Origin Odisha
  2. Direct impact India, downstream

What the satellite sees

Imagery published here, not linked to. The same public NASA layers a newsroom would use, over the region the reporting names, on the dates either side of the event.

True colour satellite view of the region, 2026-08-27
Before · 2026-08-27 Terra, MODIS, 250 m. 47% of the frame is cloud or snow.

Frame 20.2–21.7°N, 84.297–85.903°E. The region reported, not a located site.

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NASA Worldview Snapshots. Public domain, courtesy of NASA EOSDIS GIBS. Since the event: No satellite has imaged this box on the dates checked. Optical and radar passes were both tried; the next overpass may change this.

What happens next

Two horizons. A level only where a published threshold and a number exist to put something against — everything else is named as a watch, not graded.

Next 24–72 hours

Moderate More rain over the region Peak 26.9 mm in one day across the next 3, against IMD's heavy-rainfall threshold of 64.5 mm and very heavy at 115.5 mm.

The rainfall level is computed from a forecast model over a representative point — Open-Meteo forecast API, not a gauge at the event. The ungraded items are the mechanisms that follow this hazard. This page does not pretend to know their probability.

Data and sources

Everything this page is built from, counted by kind. Nothing here is quoted in this site’s own voice.

8 published reports
8 independent publishers
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Reported

A headline is evidence that something was said. It is never evidence that it is true — which is why every figure at the top of this page carries the outlet that printed it and, where they disagree, all of them.

What this page does not know
  • Casualty and damage figures are not established here. Any number in the headlines below belongs to the outlet that printed it.
  • The mechanism is this page's reading of how the event was first reported, not a finding. Himalayan disasters are often reclassified once fieldwork is done.
  • The extent of the affected area has not been verified against satellite or official mapping.
  • Whether this event is continuing or has passed is not established.

Method: assembled automatically from 8 items across 8 publishers by scripts/detect-climate-events.mjs, which scored this event 14 against a publication threshold of 14. Assembled automatically from published headlines and official alert feeds. Every figure is a count this script performed; no claim about the event is made in its own voice.

Feeds re-read every hour. This page last changed 07:40 IST, 31 Aug 2026 — a re-read that finds nothing new does not move that.

This is one event

The standing picture — how much extreme rain India actually gets, what IMD counts as extreme, who the rain kills, and what is changing across twelve cities — is on the situation page this belongs to. That page moves slowly on purpose. This one moves every half hour.

India’s extreme rain

Every reading, kept

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The work against this reading

Mostly the written record, and going to look. Three of the essays on this site were reported out of flood years, and Gram Anubhav takes groups into villages living with this, run with over a hundred grassroots partners in the villages themselves.

And why it is not a reply

Publishing and going to see are not resilience. Swechha does not build drainage, and nothing here reduces the 3,594 deaths this page counts. What the work does is make the count harder to ignore — a smaller claim than it sounds, and the only one the evidence supports.

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