GDACS Daily Newsletter for 11/8/2009

Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System — Newsletter 11/8/2009

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—8 Nov 2009 Tropical Cyclone IDA-09 of Saffir-Simpson Category 1 affected few people with winds above 39mph (63 km/h) and few 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) Friday, November 06, 2009 3:09 AM jamaicaobserver  23 hours ago   News Hurricane Ida rips into Nicaragua's Atlantic coast Friday, November 06, 2009 MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) - Hurricane Ida swept onto Nicaragua's Atlantic coast yesterday, destroying homes, damaging schools and downing bridges before losing steam and becoming a tropical storm as it moved inland. 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 120 items...
	Automatic impact report TWENTYFIVE-09 in NWPacific PDC—8 Nov 2009 Tropical Storm TWENTYFIVE-09 affected few people with winds above 39mph (63 km/h) and few 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.

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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.

No content published since yesterday.

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Created on 11/8/2009 8:41:53 AM.