August, 2007

Source: Reuters (Updates with hurricane pounding coast; adds details)

By Tomas Bravo

POZA RICA, Mexico, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Hurricane Dean crashed into Mexico's Gulf coast on Wednesday with high winds and ...

This map identifies (in red) those land surface areas in northern Belize under 4 meters in elevation, as measured from the SRTM 90m dataset. This represents an approximated upper limit for the NOAA anticipated storm surge of Hurricane Dean which made landfall near Belize on 21 August 2007. This is a preliminary analysis and has not yet been verified in the field.

Map Scale for A3: 1:820,000
Projection: UTM Zone 16N
Datum : WGS 1984

This map identifies (in red) those land surface areas in northern Belize under 4 meters in elevation, as measured from the SRTM 90m dataset. This represents an approximated upper limit for the NOAA anticipated storm surge of Hurricane Dean which made landfall near Belize on 21 August 2007. This is a preliminary analysis and has not yet been verified in the field.

Map Scale for A3: 1:820,000
Projection: UTM Zone 16N
Datum : WGS 1984

As of 22 August, a flash flood warning was issued for seven southern coastal provinces on Tuesday 21 August after floods hit the

Tropical Cyclone DEAN of Saffir-Simpson Category 2 affected 346227 people within 100km of its track.

Source: WFP WFP starts a third round of emergency food distributions in ten flood-affected districts of Bangladesh, targeting more
than 800,000 people worst hit by the disaster.

As of 21 August tens of thousands of people have been displaced by flooding in Myanmar 's Irrawaddy River . Local officials and

As of 22 August, following recent reports, OCHA estimates 17,000 people to have been displaced and 43,000 affected by flooding across Ethiopia thus far this flood season.

Tropical Cyclone DEAN of Saffir-Simpson Category 1 affected 0 people within 100km of its track.

Source: UNOSAT Map showing areas below 10 m altitude
potentially exposed to floods.


Map production: MapAction

Projection: UTM Zone 18 N

Datum: WGS 1984

Map showing areas below 10 m altitude potentially exposed to floods.

Map production: MapAction
Projection: UTM Zone 18 N
Datum: WGS 1984

Map showing areas below 10 m altitude potentially exposed to floods.

Map production: MapAction
Projection: UTM Zone 18 N
Datum: WGS 1984

Medical facilities, settlements, airports, roads,railroads, administrative boundaries and hurricane Dean track.

Map production: MapAction
Projection: UTM Zone 18 N
Datum: WGS 1984

Medical facilities, settlements, airports, roads,railroads, administrative boundaries and hurricane Dean track.

Map production: MapAction
Projection: UTM Zone 18 N
Datum: WGS 1984

The map shows which parishes in Jamaica were reported as affected by hurricane Dean at 16:00 local time 21 August 2007.

Map production: MapAction
Projection: UTM Zone 18 N
Datum: WGS 1984

The map shows which parishes in Jamaica were reported as affected by hurricane Dean at 16:00 local time 21 August 2007.

Map production: MapAction
Projection: UTM Zone 18 N
Datum: WGS 1984

Source: WFP WFP appealed to international donors for urgent funding to support its operation to provide food assistance for nine
months to 80,000 people worst affected by last week's earthquake in Peru.

Source: Reuters By Abigail Hauslohner

KHARTOUM, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Some 89 people have died in flooding in Sudan as heavy rains that washed away homes and spread water-borne disease continue to batter the country, ...

Source: AlertNet With 35,000 homes destroyed, Peruvians are building temporary shelters.

Source: Reuters PATNA, India, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Residents in eastern India complained on Wednesday about the smell of corpses floating in flood waters as the toll from widespread monsoon flooding in South Asia rose ...

August 22, 2007 09:34:51 GMT

Tropical Cyclone DEAN of Saffir-Simpson Category 1 affected 0 people within 100km of its track.

Source: Reuters (Updates rescue progress, paragraphs 6-8)

By Chris Buckley

BEIJING, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Desperate efforts to save 181 Chinese coal miners from two shafts flooded with water and mud faced near ...

August 22, 2007 07:26:23 GMT

August 22, 2007 07:26:22 GMT