Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for LUSI-14
in Vanuatu

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone LUSI-14 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 43540
Name LUSI-14
From - To 10 Mar - 13 Mar
Exposed countries Vanuatu
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 158 km/h Category 2
Maximum storm surge 0.2 m (11 Mar 06:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Medium (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
JRC 93 km/h 0.2 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
GFS n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
ECMWF n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 14 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Latest regional snapshot highlights effect of TC Lusi in Vanuatu and K ... Mon, 17 Mar 2014 15:11:00 +0100.

Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: Fiji, Indonesia, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Vanuatu VANUATU There are 10 confirmed fatalities and 2 people missing after TC Lusi (Cat 2
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Earthquake strongly felt across Los AngelesMon, 17 Mar 2014 15:01:00 +0100.

LOS ANGELES (AP) Earthquake strongly felt across Los Angeles . AP. This story has been automatically published from the Associated Press wire which uses US spellings. Power cut by Cyclone Lusi was expected to be restored to a small number
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Vanuatu: Asia Pacific Region: Weekly Regional Humanitarian Snapshot 11 ... Mon, 17 Mar 2014 11:10:00 +0100.

Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: Fiji, Indonesia, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Vanuatu VANUATU There are 10 confirmed fatalities and 2 people missing after TC Lusi (Cat 2
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Lusi in the skyMon, 17 Mar 2014 07:05:00 +0100.

Plus de peur que de mal ! C’est la phrase qui résume le mieux le passage de Lusi, cyclone, devenu tempête tropicale au moment où il a touché les côtes néo-zélandaises. Le phénomène a tout de même laissé quelques traces de son passage sur l’
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (46), (2), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2),