GDACS Daily Newsletter for 11/9/2009

Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System — Newsletter 11/9/2009

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.

Earthquakes (source JRC, USGS and EMSC)

Automatic impact report Indonesia, (M 6.7, depth 18.3km, 904000 people) NEIC—Sunday, November 08, 2009 7:41:00 PM UTC Documents from other organisations

News (provided by EMM) Indonesia says no casualties in 6.7 magnitude quake focusnews-en  8 hours ago Jakarta. A strong 6.7-magnitude earthquake has shaken Indonesia, the U.S. Geological Survey reported early on Monday morning, but there were no reports of damage or casualties initially, Reuters reported. The USGS said the quake occurred 10 miles north-northwest of Raba, Sumbawa, Indonesia, at a depth of 11. Disasters teach children to love and be tough peopledaily  22 hours ago In a split second, disasters changed everything for children. Some children lost their parents, some were left permanently disabled, while others became homeless. But the cruelest are the inerasable horror and pain in their minds. Weak and vulnerable, children suffered just as much, if not more than adults, when disaster struck. See all 27 items...

Current tropical cyclones (source JRC and Pacific Disaster Center)

	Automatic impact report IDA-09 in Atlantic PDC—9 Nov 2009 Tropical Cyclone IDA-09 of Saffir-Simpson Category 2 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) Ida Becomes Hurricane a 2nd Time off Mexico Coast ABCnews  15 hours ago Ida grew into a hurricane for a second time as it roared over the Caribbean on a path that could take it between Mexico's resort-studded Yucatan Peninsula and Cuba before heading for the southern United States. Tour operators and fishermen along Mexico's Caribbean coast, including Cancun, pulled.... 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 283 items...
	Automatic impact report TWENTYFIVE-09 in NWPacific PDC—9 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.

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Created on 11/9/2009 8:01:22 AM.