Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System — Newsletter 10/12/2011
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)  JOVA-11 in EastPacificPDC—12 Oct 2011   Tropical Cyclone JOVA-11 of Saffir-Simpson Category 3 affected 2.2 million people with winds above 39mph (63 km/h) and 38 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. | |
| Automatic impact report (JRC) IRWIN-11 in EastPacificPDC—12 Oct 2011  Tropical Cyclone IRWIN-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) BANYAN-11 in NWPacificPDC—12 Oct 2011  Tropical Storm BANYAN-11 affected 7 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. |
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 |
ReliefWeb Situation Reports
More content on ongoing disasters on ReliefWeb.
| Somalia Famine & Drought Situation Report No. 17 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:43:01 +0000 Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: Somalia I. HIGHLIGHTS/KEY PRIORITIES ? Increased insecurity threatens the delivery of humanitarian assistance. On 10 October, fighting broke out between the Al Shabaab and the TFG/AMISOM forces in Mogadishu. ? Preliminary data indicates that food assistance partners have reached about 2.2 million people in crisis to date, representing over half of the food insecure population. ? The measles immunization campaign has reached more than one million children since July, representing nearly half of the target population. |
| Flooding Situation Report No. 1 - 11 October 2011 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:38:56 +0000 Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: Haiti This report is produced by OCHA in collaboration with humanitarian partners. It was issued by OCHA Haiti Field Office. It covers the period from 6 to 11 October. The next report will be issued on or around 12 October. I. HIGHLIGHTS/KEY PRIORITIES
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| Bulletin d'Information Humanitaire N? 39/11 - Province du Sud-Kivu, 11 octobre 2011 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:43:10 +0000 Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo (the) Faits saillants ? 5 agents humanitaires ont ete tues dans une attaque armee a Fizi ? Forte flambee du cholera a Ishungu |
UNOSAT Maps
See all maps produced by UNOSAT.
 Overview of Flood Waters over Central Provinces, Thailand UNOSAT 11 Oct 2011 12:54:41 PM This map presents the standing flood waters over the affected Central Provinces of Thailand based on analysis of satellite data recorded 9-10 October 2011. A preliminary analysis indicates extensive flood waters in spatial extent in and around Nakhon Sawan province.Not all flood waters have been identified because of limits in the spatial resolution of the imagery used and due to heavy cloud cover over the assessed area.This analysis has not yet been validated in the field. Please send ground feedback to UNITAR /UNOSAT. Satellite Data(1) : MODIS Terra Imagery Dates: 10 October 2011 Resolution : 250 m Source: NASA Rapid Response Satellite Data(1) : MODIS Terra Imagery Dates: 09 October 2011 Resolution : 250 m Source: NASA Rapid Response Settlement Data: NGA (VMap1) Road Data : NGA (VMap1) Other Data: OCHA, USGS Analysis : UNITAR / UNOSAT Production: UNITAR / UNOSAT Analysis conducted with ArcGIS v10 This work by UNITAR/UNOSAT is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
ReliefWeb Maps
More maps in ReliefWeb Map Centre.
| Cholera Outbreak (as of 8 Oct 2011) - Location Map Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:46:12 +0000 Country: Central African Republic (the) Source: ReliefWeb, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs  |
| South Central Dashboard - Period: 01-Jul-2011 to 07-Oct-11 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:35:41 +0000 Country: Somalia Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees  |
| Floods - as of 10 October Tue, 11 Oct 2011 05:50:48 +0000 Country: Cambodia Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs  |
| Floods - as of 10 October 2011 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 05:48:56 +0000 Country: Lao People's Democratic Republic (the) Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs  |
| Floods - as of 10 October 2011 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 05:45:50 +0000 Country: Thailand Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs  |
| Floods - as of 10 October 2011 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 05:41:44 +0000 Country: Viet Nam Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs  |
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Created on 10/12/2011 8:06:43 AM.
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