GDACS Daily Newsletter for 2/5/2012

Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System

Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System — Newsletter 05/02/2012

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.

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) Vanuatu, (M 6.1, depth 163.4km, 32000 people)
NEIC—Sunday, February 05, 2012 12:15:00 AM UTC (6 hours ago)


Documents from other organisations

USGS Shakemap

Automatic impact report (JRC) Philippines, (M 5.6, depth 10.7km, 975000 people)
NEIC—Saturday, February 04, 2012 1:09:00 PM UTC


Documents from other organisations

USGS Shakemap

5.6 - SAMAR, PHILIPPINES Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:57:52 +0000

Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:09:23 UTCLat/Lon: 11.8985/125.757Depth: 10.66 Current tropical cyclones (source JRC and Pacific Disaster Center)

Automatic impact report (JRC) JASMINE-12 in SWPacific
PDC—4 Feb 2012

Tropical Cyclone JASMINE-12 of Saffir-Simpson Category 1 affected 13 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.

No open emergencies

ReliefWeb Situation Reports

More content on ongoing disasters on ReliefWeb.

Colombia: Desplazamiento en el Tarra Norte de Santander informe de situacion no. 1 01/02/2012 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:29:57 +0000
Source:  UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country:  Colombia

I. PRIORIDADES/PUNTOS DESTACADOS

? 797 personas se desplazaron hacia el casco urbano del Municipio del Tarra, como consecuencia de una serie de hechos violentos perpetrados por un grupo armado no estatal.

? Desde el 17 de enero hasta la fecha dos misiones del SNU tuvieron que ser canceladas por los buses bombas instalados en la via a la entrada del casco urbano.

UNOSAT Maps

See all maps produced by UNOSAT.

No content published since yesterday.

ReliefWeb Maps

More maps in ReliefWeb Map Centre.

No content published since yesterday.

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Created on 2/5/2012 8:02:54 AM.

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