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Thursday, November 12, 2015

GDACS daily newsletter for 12/11/2015

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Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System — Newsletter 12/11/2015

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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GDACS News

Satellite Mapping Overview as of 10 November 2015The 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.

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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.

map Green alert for tropical cyclone KATE-15. Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 0.
From 09/11/2015 to 12/11/2015, a Tropical Storm (maximum wind speed of 120 km/h) KATE-15 was active in Atlantic. The cyclone affects these countries: Portugal, Bahamas (vulnerability Low). Estimated population affected by category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 0.
map Green earthquake alert (Magnitude 4.8M, Depth:41.64km) in Chile 11/11/2015 07:59 UTC, 199921 people within 100km.
On 11/11/2015 7:59:32 AM, an earthquake occurred in Chile potentially affecting 199921 people within 100km. The earthquake had Magnitude 4.8M, Depth:41.64km.

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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
Myanmar Floods
3-August-2015

updated: 13-August-2015
7.9M Earthquake in Nepal on 25 Apr 2015 06:11 UTC
25-Apr-2015

updated: 9-August-2015
EQ-2015-000048-NPL
Typhoon Maysak - FS Micronesia
31-March-2015

updated: 14-Apr-2015
Chile - floods
26-March-2015

updated: 27-Apr-2015
FL-2015-000027-CHL
Tropical Cyclone Pam
11-March-2015

updated: 30-July-2015
TC-2015-000023-VUT
Typhoon Chan-hom
11-July-2015

updated: 11-July-2015

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Created on 12 Nov 2015 08:00 +01:00.

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