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Green Tropical Cyclone alert for GIOVANNA-12 in Madagascar from 10/02/2012 00:00 UTC to 21/02/2012 00:00 UTC
Summary
Tropical Cyclone impact
Storm surge
Extreme rain
Media analysis
Data Resources
GDACS Event Report - Summary

Summary

Interactive map: Open The map shows the accumulated precipitation along the cyclone's track. Yellow area is > 100mm; Red area is > 300mm; Blue area is > 500mm. The accumulated rainfall is calculated based on the Tropical Rainfall Potential of NOAA/NESDIS. The eTRaP is a simple ensemble whose members are the 6-hourly totals from the single-orbit TRaPs, which are rainfall estimates from passive microwave remote sensing. Rain map with eTraP data. (Source: JRC) Storm surge maximum height. (Source: JRC)

Tropical Cyclone GIOVANNA-12 can have a high humanitarian impact based on the Maximum sustained wind speed and the affected population and their vulnerability.

Updated: this report is based on advisory number 25.

  • Tropical Cyclone Tropical Depression (maximum wind speed of 231 km/h)
  • from 10/02/2012 00:00 UTC to 21/02/2012 00:00 UTC
  • Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 0.6million
  • Vulnerability: High

Extreme Rain

Potential rainfall is calculated based on rainfall observed by several microwave satellite sensors.

The image shows the total rainfall accumulation associated with the cyclone.

Storm surge

The maximum Storm surge height is  1.7m in Vohitramposina, Madagascar. This height is estimated for 13 Feb 2012 23:00:00.

References

Known identifiers for this event: sh1212 (jtwcId) SH122012 (noaaId)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 177 | About casualties: 31 | Last hour: 0

Orange Madagascar : compte prépayé rechargé « online »
Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:29:00 +0100   newsmada (fr)

Désormais, et c’est une première à Madagascar, il est possible de recharger facilement son compte internet prépayé en ligne. C’est ainsi qu’Orange Madagascar, opérateur mobile et internet, leader des innovations à Madagascar, facilite chaque jour un peu plus l’accès et l’utilisation des nouvelles technologies.

People and organisations:

Brickaville sinistrée : le CRS en aide aux victimes de « Giovanna »
Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:58:00 +0100   newsmada (fr)

Suite au passage du cyclone « Giovanna » à Madagascar le 14 février dernier, le « Catholic Relief Services » (CRS) a manifesté sa solidarité aux familles victimes de ce cataclysme naturel. En effet, le CRS a envoyé quatre grandes tentes pouvant accueillir jusqu’à 20 familles dans le district de Brickaville où il y a [.

People and organisations: Catholic Relief Services  Care International  Red Cross 

Pas de risque de blanchiment du corail à Mayotte
Fri, 24 Feb 2012 07:44:00 +0100   mayottehebdo (fr)

Le Cordio (Coral reef degradation in the indian ocean) et l’UICN émettent, durant la période de juin à mai propice au blanchiment du corail, des bulletins d’alerte concernant l’ouest du canal du Mozambique environ tous les quinze jours. Le dernier date du jeudi 16 février.

People and organisations:

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Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EMM (1), JRC (33), TRMM (1), NOAA (4), (2), WMO (1), OCHA (1), JTWC (3), BOM (1), Unisys (1), NASA (1), SWCB (1),

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