Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System — Newsletter 9/19/2011
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)  Nepal, (M 6.9, depth 19.7km, 1 million people)NEIC—Sunday, September 18, 2011 12:40:00 PM UTC  Documents from other organisations USGS Shakemap |
Current tropical cyclones (source JRC and Pacific Disaster Center)
 | Automatic impact report (JRC) ROKE-11 in NWPacificPDC—19 Sep 2011   Tropical Storm ROKE-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) SONCA-11 in NWPacificPDC—19 Sep 2011  Tropical Cyclone SONCA-11 of Saffir-Simpson Category 2 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.
| 6.8M Earthquake - Sikkim, INDIA 18-Sep-2011 18:39 |
| Bahamas - Hurricane Irene 27-Aug-2011 16:55 |
| Haiti - Tropical Storm Emily 4-Aug-2011 16:23 |
ReliefWeb Situation Reports
More content on ongoing disasters on ReliefWeb.
| South Sudan Weekly Humanitarian Bulletin 9-15 September 2011 Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:32:05 +0000 Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: South Sudan (Republic of), Sudan (the) Highlights:
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| Pakistan: Monsoon 2011 - Situation Report No. 4 Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:12:07 +0000 Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: Pakistan This report is produced by OCHA in collaboration with humanitarian partners and issued by OCHA Pakistan. I. HIGHLIGHTS/KEY PRIORITIES ? The number of people affected by the monsoon rains reaches 5.4 million with 824,000 displaced. ? Moderate monsoon currents still penetrating Eastern and Upper parts of the country and scattered rains are expected in upper Punjab, northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Balochistan in the next 24 hours ? The humanitarian community and the National and Provincial Disaster Management Authorities (NDMA/PDMA) are assisting the population in need. |
UNOSAT Maps
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ReliefWeb Maps
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Created on 9/19/2011 8:05:51 AM.
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