Columbia Mountain Times™: GDACS daily newsletter for 24/06/2015

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Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System — Newsletter 24/06/2015

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 22 June 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 alert for tropical cyclone KUJIRA-15. Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 0.
	From 20/06/2015 to 24/06/2015, a Tropical Depression (maximum wind speed of 83 km/h) KUJIRA-15 was active in NWPacific. The cyclone affects these countries: China (vulnerability Medium). Estimated population affected by category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 0.

	Green earthquake alert (Magnitude 4.5M, Depth:5km) in Turkey 23/06/2015 22:35 UTC, 1497109 people within 100km.
	On 6/23/2015 10:35:20 PM, an earthquake occurred in Turkey potentially affecting 1497109 people within 100km. The earthquake had Magnitude 4.5M, Depth:5km.

	Green earthquake alert (Magnitude 4.5M, Depth:10km) in Pakistan 23/06/2015 13:48 UTC, 468773 people within 100km.
	On 6/23/2015 1:48:22 PM, an earthquake occurred in Pakistan potentially affecting 468773 people within 100km. The earthquake had Magnitude 4.5M, Depth:10km.

	White earthquake alert (Magnitude 6.3M, Depth:455.88km) in Bonin Islands, Japan Region 23/06/2015 12:18 UTC, No people within 100km.
	On 6/23/2015 12:18:29 PM, an earthquake occurred in Bonin Islands, Japan Region potentially affecting No people within 100km. The earthquake had Magnitude 6.3M, Depth:455.88km.

	Green earthquake alert (Magnitude 4.5M, Depth:15.17km) in Malaysia 23/06/2015 09:32 UTC, 1162528 people within 100km.
	On 6/23/2015 9:32:31 AM, an earthquake occurred in Malaysia potentially affecting 1162528 people within 100km. The earthquake had Magnitude 4.5M, Depth:15.17km.

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

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Created on 24 Jun 2015 08:00 +02:00.

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