GDACS daily newsletter for 12/12/2015

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

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.

GDACS News

Satellite Mapping Overview as of 08 December 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.

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.

	Green earthquake alert (Magnitude 4.6M, Depth:36.32km) in Colombia 12/12/2015 01:33 UTC, About 87563 people within 100km.
	On 12/12/2015 1:33:18 AM, an earthquake occurred in Colombia potentially affecting About 87563 people within 100km. The earthquake had Magnitude 4.6M, Depth:36.32km.

	Green earthquake alert (Magnitude 4.5M, Depth:24.35km) in Dominican Republic 12/12/2015 00:32 UTC, 4767844 people within 100km.
	On 12/12/2015 12:32:20 AM, an earthquake occurred in Dominican Republic potentially affecting 4767844 people within 100km. The earthquake had Magnitude 4.5M, Depth:24.35km.

	Orange alert for tropical cyclone MELOR-15. Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 9.618 million.
	From 11/12/2015 to 12/12/2015, a Tropical Storm (maximum wind speed of 167 km/h) MELOR-15 was active in NWPacific. The cyclone affects these countries: Philippines (vulnerability Medium). Estimated population affected by category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 9.618 million.

	Green alert for tropical cyclone BOHALE-15. Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 0.
	From 10/12/2015 to 11/12/2015, a Tropical Storm (maximum wind speed of 74 km/h) BOHALE-15 was active in SWIndian. The cyclone affects these countries: [unknown] (vulnerability [unknown]). Estimated population affected by category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 0.

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 Dec 2015 08:00 +01:00.

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