The Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System
provides near real-time alerts about natural disasters around the world
and tools to facilitate response coordination, including media monitoring, map catalogues and Virtual On-Site
Operations Coordination Centre.
Events in this list are picked up from multiple
sources and automatically analyzed by a computer program to determine
the likelihood of humanitarian intervention. News, damage maps and humanitarian
situation reports are collected automatically from over 1000 on-line sources.
Technical difficulties 8-10 May 2013
Mon, 13 May 2013 08:00:00 GMT
Due to technical difficulties, GDACS did not update regularly between 8 and 12 May 2013. Some earthquakes and cyclone bulletins may have been missed, and no alerts were sent out.
Simultaneous occurence of hardware failure, changes in scientific sources and limited availability of technical staff due to bank holidays and weekend caused some downtime in the GDACS monitoring systems. Earthquakes were not monitored between 8 and 11 May due to a change in URL of the source feeds (including the USGS RSS feed). This was corrected on Saterday morning. Tropical cyclone processing stopped on Sunday 12 May and was restarted on 13 May in the morning, missing 3 bulletins. Storm surge modelling and rainfall monitoring are most affected.
The GDACS team is currently working to bring all systems back up. Apologies for any inconvenience.
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Internet problems at JRC
Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT
�Accross the night of the 30th and 31th of July, JRC had internet black out. The SMS alerts messages weren't sent out since it was impossible to connect to the clickatel webservice.
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GDACS also offers daily alerts for all disaster types
monitored. Up to now, only earthquake alerts were available (apart
from the RSS feeds). Since tropical cyclones, volcanoes and floods
are not as 'sudden onset' as earthquakes, only a daily service is
available.
The alerts published by the Global Disaster Alert
and Coordination System can also be used in your RSS reader or on
Google Earth. GDACS is using existing XML and content standards.
Based on the location and magnitude of the disasters and the local population
and their vulnerability, disasters are classified in three classes:
Green: very
low likelihood of humanitarian disaster Orange: potential
humanitarian disaster Red: very high
likelihood of humanitarian disaster
How to use GDACS alerts
The events listed on this page have been automatically selected by a
computer program based on the earliest available information; alert levels
will not be modified manually. However, if new information comes available
alert levels are updated automatically. For confirmation or further information
of the disaster, please refer
to the “coordination” section of GDACS
(OCHA Virtual OSOCC and ReliefWeb),
to the media
and – most importantly – to the local disaster response authority.
GDACS does not provide authoritative information. Please do not use GDACS
alerts for emergency response decision making without alternate sources
of information. If you are an emergency manager, please register for
GDACS coordination (Virtual OSOCC).
Earthquakes and tsunamis
Tropical Cyclones
Floods
Volcanoes
Google Earth
Green: very
low likelihood of humanitarian disaster
Orange: potential
humanitarian disaster
Red: very high
likelihood of humanitarian disaster
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