Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System — Newsletter 8/7/2011
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.
Current tropical cyclones (source JRC and Pacific Disaster Center)
  | Automatic impact report (JRC)  EMILY-11 in Atlantic (The Bahamas)PDC—7 Aug 2011  TC-2011-000105-HTI  Tropical Storm EMILY-11 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) MUIFA-11 in NWPacificPDC—7 Aug 2011  Tropical Cyclone MUIFA-11 of Saffir-Simpson Category 5 affected 121.8 million people with winds above 39mph (63 km/h) and 1.2 million people with hurricane wind strengths (74mph or 119 km/h). In addition, 34 thousand people are living in coastal areas below 5m and can therefore be affected by storm surge. | |
| Automatic impact report (JRC) MERBOK-11 in NWPacificPDC—7 Aug 2011  Tropical Cyclone MERBOK-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. | |
| Automatic impact report (JRC) EUGENE-11 in EastPacificPDC—6 Aug 2011  Tropical Cyclone EUGENE-11 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. |
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.
| Haiti - Tropical Storm Emily 4-Aug-2011 16:23 |
| Puyehue Volcano Eruption - Chile/Argentina 14-Jun-2011 10:33 |
ReliefWeb Situation Reports
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| South Sudan Weekly Humanitarian Bulletin 29 July - 4 August 2011 Sat, 06 Aug 2011 14:52:16 +0000 Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: South Sudan (Republic of) Highlights: ? South Sudanese continued to return home, with buses arriving in Renk in Upper Nile over the week. Three IOM-supported barges from Kosti in Sudan also transited through the state, en route to Juba. ? The same factors that converged together two years ago are once again undermining people?s ability to feed themselves. If the situation continues and rains do not improve, a repeat of the 2009-2010 food crisis could occur. ? WFP faces a shortfall of 11,000 metric tons of food that will dramatically affect its operations from August onwards, possibly affecting more than half a million vulnerable people. |
UNOSAT Maps
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Created on 8/7/2011 8:05:23 AM.
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