GDACS Daily Newsletter for 1/3/2010

Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System — Newsletter 1/3/2010

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.

Preferences   |  Go to http://www.gdacs.org

---

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 Papua New Guinea, (M 5.8, depth 57.5km, 424000 people) NEIC—Sunday, January 03, 2010 4:11:00 AM UTC (2 hours ago) Documents from other organisations
	Automatic impact report Guam, (M 6.2, depth 10km, unpopulated) NEIC—Saturday, January 02, 2010 8:45:00 AM UTC Documents from other organisations	News (provided by EMM) Strong earthquake hits Mariana Islands xinhuanet_en  Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:42:00 +0100 HONG KONG, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale occurred south of Mariana Islands, western Pacific, at 4:51 p.m. Saturday local time (0851 GMT), according to a bulletin released by the Hong Kong Observatory. The epicenter was initially determined to be at 12.5 degrees north latitude and 141.

---

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

---

ReliefWeb Situation Reports

More content on ongoing disasters on ReliefWeb.

No content published since yesterday.

---

UNOSAT Maps

See all maps produced by UNOSAT.

No content published since yesterday.

---

ReliefWeb Maps

More maps in ReliefWeb Map Centre.

No content published since yesterday.

---

You receive this newsletter because you subscribed on GDACS. To change your notification settings, please log in at http://register.gdacs.org. The information of GDACS is provided by the following partners: European Commission JRC, United Nations OCHA, Dartmouth Flood Observatory, Pacific Disaster Centre, USGS National Earthquake Information Centre, European Mediterranean Seismological Centre, Global Volcanism Program and UNOSAT.

Created on 1/3/2010 8:01:43 AM.