Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System — Newsletter 02/04/2014
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 01 April 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
Global Floods Partnership: Survey on how to build a better flood record
The Global Flood Partnership, recently kicked off from the GDACS sponsored Global Flood Working Group, is leading the way in producing a global flood record to collate and catalogue records of floods to a consistent and coherent standard. While it is unlikely that the needs of every user can be met, we invite potential users of the flood record to have a say in how they would prefer information on floods to be recorded. Let us know what you expect (deadline 15 April 2014): Start Survey
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.
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.
You receive this newsletter because you subscribed on GDACS. To change your notification settings, please log in at http://register.gdacs.org. The information of GDACS is provided by the following partners: European Commission JRC, United Nations OCHA, Dartmouth Flood Observatory, Pacific Disaster Centre, USGS National Earthquake Information Centre, European Mediterranean Seismological Centre, Global Volcanism Program and UNOSAT.
Created on 02 Apr 2014 08:00 +02:00.
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