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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.

  
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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.

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Orange alerts or M>6 in the last 4 days
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Bulletins provides by Dartmouth Flood Observatory based on media reports
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Activity changes in past week. Note that GDACS no longer provides alert levels for volcanic eruptions.
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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.

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GDACS alert feeds
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.
 

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This site supports the Common Alert Protocol. Click on the disaster's CAP logo to see the XML.

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Google Earth KML file: see affected regions on a 3D Globe with detailed satellite images and maps. (You need to install Google Earth).

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Based on the location and magnitude of the disasters and the local population and their vulnerability, disasters are classified in three classes:

green Green: very low likelihood of humanitarian disaster
orange Orange: potential humanitarian disaster
red 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).