MONGOLIA MONGOLIA ASIA-PACIFIC REGION 23 - 29 SEPTEMBER 2009 Natural Disasters and Other Events being monitoredBEIJING by the OCHADPR Regional KOREA Office for the Asia-Pacific PYONGYANG SEOUL JAPAN Legend RO KOREA CHINA TOKYO OCHA Office or Presence Bhutan: On Monday, 21 September 2009, an Country Capital earthquake of magnitude 6.1 has caused 11 Territory Capital casualties and 22 injuries. (Some injured have BHUTAN been discharged.) Source: UN Tropical Cyclone paths NEW DELHI NEPAL PACIFIC KATHMANDU Earthquake THIMPHU OCEAN Tropical Stroms BANGLADESH TAIPEI Taiwan Affected Countries INDIA DHAKA Province of China MYANMAR Philippines: Tropical Storm Ketsana has killed HANOI 140 persons in the northern part of the Philippines, LAO PDR and at least 32 people are reported missing. Tens of thousands remain displaced from their homes. S o u t h VIENTIANE NDCC reported that 12,359 persons has been rescued. Northern C h i n a Map Doc Name: YANGON Source: CWS, Government of the Philippines KETSANA S e a Mariana OCHA_ROAP-Sitmap_090929 THAILAND Islands (U.S.) GLIDE Number(s): SAIPAN MANILA (Bhutan) EQ-2009-000200-BTN BANGKOK VIET NAM (Philippines) TC-2009-000205-PHL PHILIPPINES AGANA CAMBODIA (Philippines) FF-2009-000201-PHL Guam (U.S.) (Vietnam) FL-2009-000207-VNM PHNOM PENH Vietnam: Heavy rains beginning from September 25 killed at least 17 people, left 6 missing, Creation Date: 29 Sep 2009 destroyed more than 9,600 homes and flooded some Projection/Datum: Behrmann 2,500 hectares of rice and 5,800 hectares of Web Resources: http://ochaonline.un.org/roap SRI LANKA vegetables, officials said. Twenty three fishing boats Nominal Scale at A4 paper size: were reported sunk. Source: DPA KOROR MICRONESIA (FSO) 1:32,000,000PALIKIR SRI PALAU 0 500 1,000 JAYEWARDENEPURA BRUNEI DARUSSALAM KOTTE BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN MALE Kilometers KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIA SINGAPORE Map data source(s): MALDIVES SINGAPORE UN Cartographic Section, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Global Discovery, GDACS, ReliefWeb rains NAURU INDIAN Disclaimers: INDONESIA The designations employed and the OCEAN presentation of material on this map do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal status of JAKARTA any country, territory, city or area or of its PAPUA NEW GUINEA authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. DILI SOLOMON ISLANDS TIMOR-LESTE PORT MORESBY HONIARA THE SETTLEMENT Christmas Island (Aus.) WEST ISLAND Cocos (Keeling) islands (Aus.) VANUATU New Caledonia (Fra.).