Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC) – ECHO Daily Map | 18/08/2015 Pacific Ocean - Tropical Cyclone GONI Shikoku SITUATION JAPAN NORTHERN MARIANA • GONI (named “INENG” in the Micronesia Kyushu ISLANDS Philippines) formed over the northern (U.S.A.) Pacific Ocean, south-east of Guam, on 14 August. From there, it started moving north-west, intensifying. CHINA East China Sea Saipan • It crossed the Mariana Islands as a Tropical Storm (93-102 km/h Tinian maximum sustained winds) on 15 2 August August, passing between the islands of SOUDELOR 167 km/h max. Tinian and Rota. GONI affected the 8 August sust. winds Mariana Islands with strong winds and 167 km/h max. Okinawa Pacific Ocean heavy rainfall. On Guam, 100mm of sust. winds Rota rain were observed over 15-16 August (24h). As of 17 August, local media RAINFALL reported some flooding in the streets of 15 August western Guam, as well as electricity mm / last 7 days 93 km/h max. Miyako network damage on Rota island. 100 - 200 sust. winds Yaeyama • GONI subsequently continued moving 200 - 300 GUAM west-northwest, away from the Mariana Taiwan Source: NASA (U.S.A.) Islands, intensifying into a Typhoon. SOUDELOR On 18 August, at 6.00 UTC, it was 8 August over the Philippine Sea, with its 120 km/h max. sust. winds centre located 1 350 km east of the islands of Batanes province in the northern Philippines. NORTHERN MARIANA • Over the next 48h, GONI is forecast to ISLANDS continue on its west-northwestern South China Sea (U.S.A.) track, initially weakening slightly and then intensifying again. It is expected to approach the islands of Cagayan THE and Batanes provinces as a strong PHILIPPINES Typhoon late on 20 August, before possibly turning north, towards eastern Taiwan. • Heavy rainfall, strong winds and storm Philippine Sea surge may affect the land along GONI’s path over the next few days. GONI • A few days earlier, on 8 August, 18 August 6.00 UTC GUAM Typhoon SOUDELOR had made landfall 194km/h max. sust. winds (U.S.A.) in eastern Taiwan and then proceeded towards Fujian province in south- TROPICAL CYCLONE WIND ZONES POSITION eastern China, causing the death of at 64 km/h least 28 people in total, as well as Observed position Legend 92 km/h extensive flood and wind damage. Forecast position 119 km/h SOUDELOR had previously made Cyclones Track points Area of Forecast Pacific Ocean landfall on Saipan in the Northern TROPICAL CYCLONE PALAU Track Uncertainty Mariana Islands with Typhoon WIND_SPEEDINTENSITY intensity, causing damage mostly to POPULATION DENSITY ppl/sq.m Ï Tropical0.000000 Depression - 17.000000 public infrastructure, including the > 5 000 Tropical Storm electricity and water supply. 2 500 - 5 000 Ï 17.000001 - 32.500000 Typhoon 500 - 2 500 Sources: GDACS (1, 2), JTWC, PAGASA, Taiwan Ï 32.500001 - 69.000000 CWB, JMA, CMA, Local Media (1, 2, 3, 4) Ï 69.000001 - 100.000000.