Asia and the Pacific: Weekly Regional Humanitarian Snapshot (6 - 12 February 2018)

PACIFIC PHILIPPINES Neutral Watch Tropical Cyclone Gita passed Watch As of 10 February, 88,500 people Samoa on 10 February and Niue Alert from 61 barangays have been Alert on 11 February, with damage and MONGOLIA displaced due to the Mayon El Niño localized flooding reported in Samoa. TC Volcano, with most people staying in Gita is forecast to strike Tonga on the emergency centres. The Mayon seismic DPR KOREA La Niña evening of 12 February. As of 12 Pyongyang monitoring network recorded 108 JAPAN February, 12:00 UTC, TC Gita continues RO KOREA volcanic related earthquakes as of 11 CHINA Kabul Kobe LA NIÑA/EL NIÑO LEVEL to move west as a Category 4 cyclone Islamabad Source: Commonwealth of Australia Bureau of Meteorology February that resulted in lava fountains. with winds of up to 213 km/h, it is BHUTAN The Department of Agriculture has expected to maintain this intensity as it provided farm supplies and materials to PAKISTAN passes over Tonga and into Fijian NEPAL 10,500 affected farmers. Medical territorial waters. 1 missions and psychosocial activities, as PACIFIC INDIA well as food and non-food items, are South OCEAN being delivered at the emergency centres MYANMAR VIET BANGLADESH LAO 3 NAM China for displaced people. PDR Northern Mariana Yangon Sea Islands (US) THAILAND people displaced MYANMAR Manila 88,500 Armed clashes between the Bay of Bangkok PHILIPPINES Guam (US) CAMBODIA Tropical Storm Sanba-18 Myanmar Military and the Ta’ang Bengal (Basyang) is expected to make National Liberation Army (TNLA) in SANBA PALAU FEDERATED landfall in the Caraga region of Shan State last week displaced more BRUNEI MARSHALL DARUSSALAM STATES OF ISLANDS Philippines on 13 February, with wind than 870 people from villages in Hseni SRI LANKA MICRONESIA speeds of 74 km/h. As of 12 February, and Kutkai townships. Local authorities, MALAYSIA the storm had slowed down and the Government Disaster Management MALDIVES SINGAPORE KIRIBATI continues to track in a West-Northwest Department, civil society organizations, NAURU direction towards the east of Mindanao. and NGOs provided initial humanitarian INDIAN INDONESIA Heavy rains and landslides are possible assistance including food, clothes, in affected areas, with a tropical cyclone hygiene and dignity kits, however, more OCEAN PAPUA NEW Jakarta SOLOMON warning signal #2 raised over Surigao del winter items are still needed. GUINEA ISLANDS Sur.4 TIMOR-LESTE TUVALU TOKELAU In Kachin State, most of the 5,000 PRECIPITATION FORECAST people who had been trapped in The latest precipitation forecasts for the conflict-affected areas in Tanai SAMOA Jan-Feb-Mar season predicts above normal VANUATU INDONESIA FIJI have been evacuated to safe areas. rainfall for much of the Philippines, Indonesia, Suva Local authorities and humanitarian Malaysia, Brunei, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand On 6FRENCH January, POLYNESIA prolonged heavy organizations provided evacuees with NIUE and Northern Australia. Japan, China, and NEW GITA rains in Bogor in West Java food, clothes, healthcare and Kiribati are likely to see below average rainfall. CALEDONIA TONGA COOK triggeredISLANDS landslides in four spots transportation to return to their places of Source: IRI, Columbia University. Jan. 2018 AUSTRALIA on the road from Salak Mountain, BogorPITCAIRN origin. In Sumprabum Township of Kachin to Jakarta. Four people are known to Above normal State, some 900 people who fled fighting have died. Flood waters moving in late January remain displaced, Normal downstream from Bogor to Jakarta also sheltering in a forest in makeshift caused flooding in East Jakarta, South shelters. Humanitarian access to both Below normal Jakarta and West Jakarta. 6,500 Tanai and Sumprabum areas remain NEW ZEALAND displaced people were provided with highly restricted.2 support at 31 designated IDP points across the city. From 8 to 9 February, heavy rains in Banjarnegara District, people remain displaced 900 Central Java Province, and in South Minahasa District in North Sulawesi OCHA presence Province also caused landslides.5 The boundaries and names shown and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations Creation date: 12 February 2018 Sources: 1.GDACS, OCHA, PDC 2.GAD, DMD, IRRC, OCHA, JST 3.NDRRMC 4.GDACS, PAGASA, PDC 5. BNPB | Feedback: [email protected] www.unocha.org/roap