GDACS Daily Newsletter for 2/6/2012

Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System

Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System — Newsletter 06/02/2012

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) Philippines, (M 5.6, depth 34.6km, 8 million people)
NEIC—Monday, February 06, 2012 4:20:00 AM UTC (2 hours ago)


Documents from other organisations

USGS Shakemap

5.6 - NEGROS - CEBU REGION, PHILIPPINES Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:35:12 +0000

Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:20:03 UTCLat/Lon: 10.0584/123.171Depth: 34.59

Automatic impact report (JRC) Philippines, (M 6.7, depth 20km, 8 million people)
NEIC—Monday, February 06, 2012 3:49:00 AM UTC (3 hours ago)

JRC Tsunami height map


Documents from other organisations

USGS Shakemap

6.8 - NEGROS - CEBU REGION, PHILIPPINES Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:59:45 +0000

Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:49:16 UTCLat/Lon: 9.9641/123.246Depth: 46.64

Automatic impact report (JRC) Vanuatu, (M 6.0, depth 10.3km, unpopulated)
NEIC—Sunday, February 05, 2012 4:40:00 PM UTC


Documents from other organisations

USGS Shakemap

6 - VANUATU Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:16:45 +0000

Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:40:39 UTCLat/Lon: -17.9519/167.23Depth: 10.28 Current tropical cyclones (source JRC and Pacific Disaster Center)

Automatic impact report (JRC) JASMINE-12 in SWPacific
PDC—5 Feb 2012

Tropical Storm JASMINE-12 affected few 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.

No content published since yesterday.

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 2/6/2012 8:02:17 AM.

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