---
id: "glide_number"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["environment", "government"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 80
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/glide_number"
---

# GLIDE disaster number (`glide_number`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

GLobal IDEntifier number of a disaster event, issued at GLIDEnumber.net (run by the Asian Disaster Reduction Center) and used by ReliefWeb, the Red Cross, UNDRR and other humanitarian sites. It has four parts separated by hyphens, a two-letter hazard code (EQ earthquake, FL flood, TC tropical cyclone, DR drought, EP epidemic and 23 more), the year, a six-digit sequence number and the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code of the affected country, or --- when no country code applies. One event that hits several countries gets one number per country with the same hazard, year and sequence.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Environment (protected areas, biodiversity, water, weather, emissions, waste) (environment), Government related (government)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^(?:AC|AV|CE|CW|DR|EC|EP|EQ|ET|FA|FF|FL|FR|HT|IN|LS|MS|OT|SL|SS|ST|TC|TO|TS|VO|VW|WF|WV)-(?:19|20)\d{2}-\d{6}-(?:[A-Z]{3}|---)$
```

## Examples

- `EQ-2010-000009-HTI` — 2010 Haiti earthquake; GLIDEnumber.net
- `EQ-2001-000033-IND` — 2001 Gujarat (Bhuj) earthquake, India; GLIDEnumber.net
- `TC-2005-000144-USA` — Hurricane Katrina in the United States; GLIDEnumber.net
- `FL-2016-000121----` — 2016 flood in Kosovo, which has no ISO country code; GLIDEnumber.net
- `EQ-2010-9-HTI` (invalid example) — Sequence number not padded to six digits
- `XX-2010-000009-HTI` (invalid example) — XX is not a GLIDE hazard code

## Translations

- ru: Номер бедствия GLIDE: Глобальный идентификатор стихийного бедствия GLIDE (GLIDEnumber.net) — код типа угрозы, год, шестизначный порядковый номер и трёхбуквенный код страны ISO 3166-1, например EQ-2010-000009-HTI.

## Sources

- doc: <https://glidenumber.net/glide/public/about.jsp>
- doc: <https://glidenumber.net/glide/public/search/search.jsp>

## Quality

Score 80/100. Missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/glide_number.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/environment/glide_number.yaml>