GDACS Daily Newsletter for 1/10/2010

Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System — Newsletter 1/10/2010

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 United States, (M 6.5, depth 21.7km, 122000 people) NEIC—Sunday, January 10, 2010 12:27:00 AM UTC (6 hours ago) Documents from other organisations

News (provided by EMM) Tajik Quake Survivors Short of Shelter, Food iwpr  Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:33:00 +0100 Earthquake survivors in eastern mountains struggling in freezing conditions without adequate shelter, clothing and food. By Aslibegim Manzarshoeva in Dushanbe (RCA No. 600, 08-Jan-10) Another small earthquake jolts U.S. Silicon Valley xinhuanet_en  Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:49:00 +0100 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake of magnitude 3.8 struck the Silicon Valley area in the United States on Friday, a day after another tremor jolted the same region. Preliminary data from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) showed that the latest quake occurred at 11:48 a.m. See all 11 items...

Current tropical cyclones (source JRC and Pacific Disaster Center)

Automatic impact report EDZANI-10 in SWIndian PDC—9 Jan 2010 Tropical Cyclone EDZANI-10 of Saffir-Simpson Category 4 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 1/10/2010 8:01:48 AM.