GDACS Daily Newsletter for 1/22/2010

Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System — Newsletter 1/22/2010

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.

Current tropical cyclones (source JRC and Pacific Disaster Center)

Automatic impact report MAGDA-10 in SEIndian PDC—21 Jan 2010 Tropical Cyclone MAGDA-10 of Saffir-Simpson Category 1 affected 8 thousand 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.

Haiti - Earthquake Affected Areas (as of 21 January 2010) Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:26:58 GMT Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Format: pdf Date: 22 Jan 2010 Size: 360 Kb

Haiti: Earthquake 2010 Update Jan 21 - Port au Prince Situation Report (with descriptive text) Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:50:10 GMT Source: Information Management and Mine Action Programs Format: pdf Date: 21 Jan 2010 Size: 516 Kb

Haiti: General Logistics and Planning Map (as of 21 Jan 2010) Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:32:04 GMT Source: Logistics Cluster, United Nations World Food Programme Format: pdf Date: 21 Jan 2010 Size: 1191 Kb

Haiti - Port-au-Prince - Road damage assessment map (based on Google high-resolution data acquired on 17/01/2010) Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:10:20 GMT Source: Information Technology for Humanitarian Assistance, Cooperation and Action, United Nations World Food Programme Format: pdf Date: 21 Jan 2010 Size: 355 Kb

Haiti: Port-au-Prince medical infrastructure situation (as of 21 Jan 2010) Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:27:39 GMT Source: World Health Organization Format: pdf Date: 21 Jan 2010 Size: 1268 Kb

Somalia - Food Aid Distributions (December 2009) Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:21:39 GMT Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Format: pdf Date: 21 Jan 2010 Size: 348 Kb

Egypt: Flash floods (as of 21 Jan 2010) Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:52:15 GMT Source: International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies Format: pdf Date: 21 Jan 2010 Size: 1033 Kb

Bangladesh: Cold Wave (as of 21 Jan 2010) Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:15:00 GMT Source: International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies Format: pdf Date: 21 Jan 2010 Size: 1943 Kb

Port au Prince - Haiti - Reference Map (as of 15 Jan 2010) Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:58:21 GMT Source: G-MOSAIC Project (GMES FP7) Format: pdf Date: 21 Jan 2010 Size: 4732 Kb

Haiti: Port-au-Prince Earthquake Affected Areas (as of 20 Jan 2010) Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:13:34 GMT Source: Information Technology for Humanitarian Assistance, Cooperation and Action, United Nations World Food Programme Format: pdf Date: 21 Jan 2010 Size: 355 Kb

Damage Assessment for the Haiti Earthquake - Automated Analysis (as of 12 Jan 2010) Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:45:20 GMT Source: G-MOSAIC Project (GMES FP7) Format: pdf Date: 21 Jan 2010 Size: 3612 Kb

Damage Assessment for the Haiti Earthquake (as of 12 Jan 2010) - Interferometric Land Use Map Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:29:18 GMT Source: G-MOSAIC Project (GMES FP7) Format: pdf Date: 21 Jan 2010 Size: 3601 Kb

Damage Assessment for the Haiti Earthquake (as of 12 Jan 2010) - Multitemporal Coherence Map Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:18:25 GMT Source: G-MOSAIC Project (GMES FP7) Format: pdf Date: 21 Jan 2010 Size: 3557 Kb

Haiti: Earthquake 2010 Update Jan 20 - Port au Prince Situation Report Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:37:02 GMT Source: Information Management and Mine Action Programs Format: pdf Date: 21 Jan 2010 Size: 482 Kb

Haiti: Earthquake 2010 Update Jan 20 - Infrastructure and Logistics Report Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:33:39 GMT Source: Information Management and Mine Action Programs Format: pdf Date: 21 Jan 2010 Size: 289 Kb

USG Humanitarian Assistance To Haiti for the Earthquake (as of 20 Jan 2010) Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:17:23 GMT Source: United States Agency for International Development Format: pdf Date: 21 Jan 2010 Size: 1665 Kb

Haiti - Port-au-Prince, Camps and Distribution Points (as of 19 January 2010) Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:58:21 GMT Source: United Nations World Food Programme Format: pdf Date: 21 Jan 2010 Size: 3036 Kb

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Created on 1/22/2010 8:02:04 AM.