ภัยพิบัติ: GDACS Daily Newsletter for 3/19/2014

Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System — Newsletter 19/03/2014

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.

GDACS News

Satellite Mapping Overview as of 18 March 2014The latest overview report of current ongoing satellite mapping activities related to humanitarian disasters is available.

It is intended for disaster managers, operations centres, desk officers and others that need syntheses of what goes on in this field. The service is operated by the GDACS mapping & satellite imagery coordination mechanism: UNITAR Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT). We encourage any satellite mapping production entity to submit information about their products so we can include it in future summaries

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.

	Green earthquake alert (Magnitude 4.7M, Depth:12.87km) in Iran, Islamic Republic of 18/03/2014 19:01 UTC, 387453 people within 100km.
	On 3/18/2014 7:01:31 PM, an earthquake occurred in Iran, Islamic Republic of potentially affecting 387453 people within 100km. The earthquake had Magnitude 4.7M, Depth:12.87km.

	Green earthquake alert (Magnitude 4.5M, Depth:61.23km) in Japan 18/03/2014 17:24 UTC, 38624552 people within 100km.
	On 3/18/2014 5:24:43 PM, an earthquake occurred in Japan potentially affecting 38624552 people within 100km. The earthquake had Magnitude 4.5M, Depth:61.23km.

	Green earthquake alert (Magnitude 4.6M, Depth:92.4km) in Philippines 18/03/2014 09:48 UTC, 741464 people within 100km.
	On 3/18/2014 9:48:05 AM, an earthquake occurred in Philippines potentially affecting 741464 people within 100km. The earthquake had Magnitude 4.6M, Depth:92.4km.

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.

Open emergencies

Tropical Cyclone Haiyan (Philippines)
5-Nov-2013
updated: 15-Jan-2014

TC-2013-000139-PHL

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Created on 19 Mar 2014 08:00 +01:00.

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