Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System — Newsletter 7/31/2011
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 (JRC)  Japan, (M 6.4, depth 43.5km, 2 million people)NEIC—Saturday, July 30, 2011 6:53:00 PM UTC  Documents from other organisations USGS Shakemap
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Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 18:53:52 UTCCurrent tropical cyclones (source JRC and Pacific Disaster Center)
 | Automatic impact report (JRC) MUIFA-11 in NWPacificPDC—31 Jul 2011   Tropical Cyclone MUIFA-11 of Saffir-Simpson Category 5 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. | |
| Automatic impact report (JRC) NOCK-TEN-11 in NWPacificPDC—30 Jul 2011  Tropical Cyclone NOCK-TEN-11 of Saffir-Simpson Category 1 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. |
Discussions in Virtual OSOCC
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| Puyehue Volcano Eruption - Chile/Argentina 14-Jun-2011 10:33 |
ReliefWeb Situation Reports
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| Somalia Drought Crisis Humanitarian Bulletin Issue 30, 22-29 July 2011 Sat, 30 Jul 2011 01:08:14 +0000 Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya HIGHLIGHTS ? The Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, Mark Bowden has warned that the situation there could drastically worsen, spreading famine to 5 or 6 more areas in the country if an immediate multi-sector response is not scaled up. ? As of 29 July, the revised Appeal is 38 per cent funded, with $319,865,55 received and $48,107,72 in pledges received out of the $1.062 million requested. ? Some 23,000 households (138,360 people) in Mogadishu received shelter packages. ? Ongoing emergency measles vaccination campaigns are benefiting 40,000 children under the age of 5 in Mogadishu and 55,000 other children in the Gedo region. |
| Horn of Africa Drought Crisis Situation Report No. 7 Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:18:58 +0000 Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya This report is produced by OCHA in collaboration with humanitarian partners. It was issued by OCHA Eastern Africa. It covers the period from 25 July to 28 July. The next report will be issued on or around the 2 nd of August. I. HIGHLIGHTS/KEY PRIORITIES ? 12,391,394 people are in need in the Horn of Africa, up from 11.6 million on 26 July. An additional 800,000 people in Kenya are in need of food aid from August, and the numbers of Somali refugees continue to rise. ? About 1.25 million children across Southern Somalia are in urgent need of life saving interventions and 640,000 are acutely malnourished. ? Six people have been killed and 39 wounded in fighting between AU forces and Al-Shabaab in Mogadishu. ? While only partial access is granted to central Somalia and WFP has no access to southern areas, ? 1,300 new refugees arrive daily to Kenya, but some 300 a day to Ethiopia, down from a peak of 2,000 |
UNOSAT Maps
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ReliefWeb Maps
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| Eastern Africa: Drought ? Humanitarian Snapshot (as of 29 Jul 2011) Sat, 30 Jul 2011 01:00:21 +0000 Source: ReliefWeb, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Food insecurity remains at emergency levels across parts of the Horn of Africa, famine has been declared in two regions of Southern Somalia. Humanitarian organizations are struggling to cope with the influx of Somali refugees in Ethiopia and Kenya. Malnutrition and mortality rates are alarmingly high in many parts of the region. Country: Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya  |
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Created on 7/31/2011 8:05:21 AM.
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