ASIA-PACIFIC REGION 10 - 16 FEB 2010 Natural Disasters and Other Events being monitored by the OCHA Regional Office for the Asia-Pacific
Probability of Above/Below Legend Normal Precipitation Feb to April 2010 OCHA Office or Presence Above normal rainfall Country Capital 1 ULAANBAATAR MONGOLIA Territory Capital
normal JAMMU D P R K O R E A BEIJING PYONGYANG Affected Areas KASHMIR SEOUL Tropical Cyclone Paths AKSAI C H I N A TOKYO CHIN J A PA N PACI FIC Below Normal Rainfall ARUNASHAL Earthquake NEW DELHI N E P A L PRADESH OCE AN Source: The International Research Institute for Climate and KATHMANDU THIMPHBU H U TA N Society - Jan 2010 Forecast for the Feb-Mar-Apr season TAIPEI DHAKA M YA N M A R I N D I A L A OH ANOSI outh N o r t h e r n Map Doc Name: P D R M a r i a n a OCHA_ROAP-Sitmap_100216 B A N G L A D E S H VIENTIANEChina YANGON Sea I s l a n d s ( U . S . ) GLIDE Number(s): Bay of T H A I L A N D MANILA SAIPAN BANGKOK Bengal C A M B O D I A AGANA TC-2010-000025-TON (Tonga) PHNOM PENH P H2 I L I P P I N EGSu a m ( U . S . ) TC-2010-000024-COK (Cook Islands) S R I L A N K A V I E T N A M SRI KOROR PALIKIR MAJURO JAYEWARDENEPURA Creation Date: 16 February 2010 KOTTE PA L A U M I C R O N E S I A ( F S O ) MALE Projection/Datum: Behrmann/WGS84 KUALA LUMPURM A L AY S I AB R U N E I D A R U S S A L A M K I R I B A T I Web Resources: http://ochaonline.un.org/roap I N D I A N S I N G A P O R E N A U R TUARAWA O C E A N YAREN 0 500 1,000 1,500 I N D O N E S I A 4 JAKARTA PAPUA Kilometers 3 TUVALU Map data source(s): NEW GUINEA Funafuti Tokelau (N.Z.) UN Cartographic Section, Food and Agriculture Christmas Island (Aus.) DILI HONIARA Organization (FAO), Global Discovery, PORT MORESBY T I M O R - L E S T E S O L O M O N GDACS, PDC, IRI. APIA Cocos (Keeling) Island (Aus.) I S L A N D S Matu Utu F r e n c h Disclaimers: PAGO PAGO VA N U AT UF I J I PAPEETEP o l y n e s i a The boundaries and names shown and the PORT-VILA 5 SUVA designations used on this map do not imply ALOFI ( F r a . ) official endorsement or acceptance by the New Caledonia (Fra.) 6 AVARUA 7 United Nations. NOUMA? A U S T R A L I A NUKU'ALOFA C o o k Pitcairn (U.K.) T O N G A I s l a n d s ( N . Z . ) KINGSTON
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1. Mongolia - The dzud situation in Mongolia continues to 4. Papua New Guinea - An outbreak of cholera has killed 45 6. Tonga - Tropical Cyclone Rene struck Tonga on 15 Feb. communications are currently unavailable. Clean-up be closely monitored. Source: OCHA people. Authorities are working with Oxfam, Save the Damage assessment is ongoing but so far there are no operations have begun. No deaths have been reported. Children, WHO and MSF to contain the disease. Source: reports of casualties, although communications and power Source: WHO, Media 2. Philippines/Indonesia - There is a high chance of below- Media have been badly affected and there are reports of crop normal rainfall in the Philippines, Borneo and Sulawesi damage. Cyclone warnings have been lowered in all areas as (IDN) as well as in Palau and Micronesia. Source: IRI 5. Vanautu - Gaua volcano in Torba continues to be closely the cyclone moves away from Tonga. Source: APCEDI monitored. To date 400 people have been relocated to the 3. Indonesia - A magnitude 6.2 undersea earthquake struck other side of the island and a further 7. Cook Islands - Tropical Cyclone Pat damaged 80 per off eastern Indonesia. No tsunami warnings were issued 2,700 may be evacuated if the situation worsens. Source: cent of houses on Aitutaki island. The Government has following the earthquake. Source: Media OCHA declared a state of disaster for the island. Power and full