GDACS Daily Newsletter for 11/7/2009

Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System — Newsletter 11/7/2009

This daily newsletter provides an overview of the natural disasters that happened in the last 24 hours and response measures for ongoing disasters. GDACS currently covers earthquakes, tsunamis, tropical cyclones, volcanic eruptions and floods. The color coding (red, orange, green) is related to the estimated humanitarian impact of the event.

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Disaster events in the last 24 hours

GDACS detected the following potential disasters. For up-to-date media coverage, latest maps and ReliefWeb content related to these disasters, please go to GDACS homepage.

Current tropical cyclones (source JRC and Pacific Disaster Center)

Automatic impact report IDA-09 in Atlantic PDC—7 Nov 2009 Tropical Cyclone IDA-09 of Saffir-Simpson Category 1 affected few people with winds above 39mph (63 km/h) and 2 thousand people with hurricane wind strengths (74mph or 119 km/h). In addition, few people are living in coastal areas below 5m and can therefore be affected by storm surge.

News (provided by EMM) Hurricane Ida rips into Nicaragua theglobeandmail  10 hours ago   H urricane Ida ripped into Nicaragua's Atlantic coast on Thursday, destroying homes, damaging schools and downing bridges before losing steam and becoming a tropical storm. Ida, clocking 125 km/h winds, struck land around sunrise in Tasbapauni, about 96 kilometres northeast of Bluefields, said meteorologist Dennis Feltgen of the U. Tropical storm Ida could trigger Nicaragua mudslides focusnews-en  5 Nov 2009   Managua. Tropical Storm Ida strengthened off the coast of Nicaragua on Wednesday as heavy rains forced a Caribbean island to evacuate and the Central American nation, fearing devastating mudslides, was put on hurricane watch, Reuters reported. Ida, the ninth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane.... See all 80 items...

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Discussions in Virtual OSOCC

The GDACS Virtual OSOCC is a forum for emergency managers. If you are involved in an ongoing emergency as a local emergency management authority or as an international responder, please provide your information in the GDACS Virtual OSOCC. The following emergencies are currently open.

No open emergencies

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ReliefWeb Situation Reports

More content on ongoing disasters on ReliefWeb.

No content published since yesterday.

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UNOSAT Maps

See all maps produced by UNOSAT.

No content published since yesterday.

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ReliefWeb Maps

More maps in ReliefWeb Map Centre.

South Sudan: Access Constraints (as of 30 Oct 2009) 6 Nov 2009 9:45:36 PM Source: United Nations Joint Logistics Centre Format: pdf Date: 06 Nov 2009 Size: 602 Kb

Philippines: Logistical Planning Map - Air, Sea, & Land (as of 05 Nov 2009) 6 Nov 2009 9:40:29 PM Source: Logistics Cluster, United Nations World Food Programme Format: pdf Date: 06 Nov 2009 Size: 1714 Kb

Europe: Reported cumulative number of confirmed fatal cases of influenza A (H1N1)v in EU and EFTA countries (as of 06 Nov 2009) 6 Nov 2009 9:37:52 PM Source: European Union Format: pdf Date: 06 Nov 2009 Size: 68 Kb

World: Reported cumulative number of confirmed fatal cases of influenza A(H1N1)v and country reporting status by country (as of 05 Nov 2009) 6 Nov 2009 9:32:11 PM Source: European Union Format: pdf Date: 06 Nov 2009 Size: 105 Kb

DR Congo: Ethnic Violence (as of 06 Nov 2009) - Location Map 6 Nov 2009 8:22:10 PM Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - ReliefWeb Format: pdf Date: 06 Nov 2009 Size: 149 Kb

Paraguay: Floods (as of 6 Nov 2009) - Location Map 6 Nov 2009 5:35:50 PM Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - ReliefWeb Format: pdf Date: 06 Nov 2009 Size: 120 Kb

Paraguay: Floods (as of 06 Nov 2009) 6 Nov 2009 3:37:09 PM Source: International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies Format: pdf Date: 06 Nov 2009 Size: 710 Kb

Viet Nam: Typhoon Mirinae (as of 06 Nov 2009) 6 Nov 2009 3:35:19 PM Source: International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies Format: pdf Date: 06 Nov 2009 Size: 506 Kb

Pakistan: South Waziristan, D.I. Khan and Tank - Humanitarian Situation (as of 05 Nov 2009) 6 Nov 2009 3:26:14 PM Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Format: pdf Date: 06 Nov 2009 Size: 110 Kb

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Created on 11/7/2009 8:00:47 AM.