GDACS Daily Newsletter for 3/16/2010

Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System — Newsletter 3/16/2010

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 Chile, (M 6.7, depth 18km, 1 million people) NEIC—Tuesday, March 16, 2010 2:21:00 AM UTC (4 hours ago) JRC Tsunami height map: list of affected towns Documents from other organisations	News (provided by EMM) Transformer failure plunges nervous Chileans into darkness nzherald  Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:08:00 +0100 SANTIAGO - A power failure plunged nearly the entire Chilean population into darkness yesterday, rattling a country already anxious after last month's 8.8-magnitude quake.The outage struck around nightfall and affected a 2000km... Chile Braces for a Major Economic Slowdown IHT  Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:44:00 +0100 A major slowdown is expected in several industries, including fishing, pulp and paper, wine and agriculture. See all 71 items...
	Automatic impact report Chile, (M 6.0, depth 10km, 433000 people) NEIC—Monday, March 15, 2010 11:08:00 AM UTC Documents from other organisations	News (provided by EMM) Featured, Podcasts - Technology brings aid to school children in disaster areas reliefWeb-latestUpdates  Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:04:00 +0100 By Anna Azaryeva NEW YORK, USA, 11 March 2010 a?? The earthquake that shook Chile on 27 February reportedly killed hundreds of people causing widespread damage to homes, hospitals, schools, roads and other infrastructure. The Russian hospital of the Ministry for Emergency Situationsl starts working in Chile itartass_en  Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:26:00 +0100 15.03.2010, 13.41 MOSCOW, March 15 (Itar-Tass) - The Russian hospital of the Ministry for Emergency Situations (EMERCOM) has received first victims of the earthquake that hit Chile. The airmobile hospital, integrated in the Centrospas detachment of EMERCOM, has been deployed in Santiago. See all 103 items...

Current tropical cyclones (source JRC and Pacific Disaster Center)

	Automatic impact report TOMAS-10 in SEPacific PDC—16 Mar 2010 Tropical Cyclone TOMAS-10 of Saffir-Simpson Category 4 affected 19 thousand people with winds above 39mph (63 km/h) and 17 thousand 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) Hurricane Warning Update: 4.17pm fijitimes  Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:35:00 +0100 Update: 5:13PM Special Weather Bulletin Number 19 for Fiji on Tropical Cyclone Tomas Issued from RSMC NADI at 4:17pm on Monday March 15, 2010 Big and bad fijitimes  Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:13:00 +0100 TOMAS intensified to a category three hurricane overnight with damaging gale force winds extending to about 280-370km from its centre. See all 54 items...
	Automatic impact report ULUI-10 in SWPacific PDC—16 Mar 2010 Tropical Cyclone ULUI-10 of Saffir-Simpson Category 5 affected 26 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.	News (provided by EMM) 22:02 on 12 March, 2010 UTC rnzi  Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:21:00 +0100 Tongans in NZ dismayed about slow rebuilding of Niuatoputapu Posted at 22:02 on 12 March, 2010 UTC The Tongan Advisory Council in New Zealand is questioning why reconstruction on the tsunami-affected Tongan island of Niuatoputapu is still a while away. Thousands flee Fiji cyclone, NZers urged to register nzherald  Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:12:00 +0100 The Government is urging New Zealanders in Fiji to register with the High Commission in Suva as the devastating Cyclone Tomas hits the islands.Prime Minister John Key said today about 450 were registered, but there were likely... See all 9 items...

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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.

Uganda - Mudslides, March 2010 2-Mar-2010 17:24

Chile - Earthquake 8.8M - February 2010 27-Feb-2010 08:21

Ukraine - Potential tailing dam collapse 18-Feb-2010 11:56

Tropical Cyclone Pat - Cook Islands, February 2010 10-Feb-2010 21:55

Haiti - Earthquake 7.0-7.2M - January 2010 12-Jan-2010 23:20

El Salvador: UNDAC Disaster Response Preparedness mission 25-Feb-2010 14:30

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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 3/16/2010 8:03:19 AM.