GDACS Daily Newsletter for 1/29/2012

Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System — Newsletter 1/29/2012

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.

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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.

Earthquakes (source JRC, USGS and EMSC)

Automatic impact report (JRC) Off-shore area, (M 6.3, depth 582.8km, unpopulated)
NEIC—Tuesday, January 24, 2012 12:52:00 AM UTC


Documents from other organisations

USGS Shakemap

Automatic impact report (JRC) Chile, (M 6.2, depth 29.7km, 1 million people)
NEIC—Monday, January 23, 2012 4:04:00 PM UTC


Documents from other organisations

USGS Shakemap

6.2 - OFFSHORE BIO-BIO, CHILE Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:06:47 +0000
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:04:54 UTCLat/Lon: -36.4149/-73.0152Depth: 29.7 Current tropical cyclones (source JRC and Pacific Disaster Center)

Automatic impact report (JRC) FUNSO-12 in SWIndian
PDC—24 Jan 2012

Tropical Cyclone FUNSO-12 of Saffir-Simpson Category 4 affected 3.3 million people with winds above 39mph (63 km/h) and 500 thousand people with hurricane wind strengths (74mph or 119 km/h). In addition, 83 thousand 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.

No content published since yesterday.

UNOSAT Maps

See all maps produced by UNOSAT.

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ReliefWeb Maps

More maps in ReliefWeb Map Centre.

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Created on 1/29/2012 8:02:14 AM.