Situation Report

In the past week, volunteers have been monitoring for urgent needs and those stranded in several recent Earthquakes, significant storm patterns in the USA as well as China and a shooting incident in Auroro Colorado.

Earthquakes Monitored:
Did you feel it links were released in social media and public monitored for impacts on several moderate to strong earthquakes. After a 6.5 struck the Solomon Islands, one resident reported from Honiara "@runmikerun1 Boats appear to be in the same spot and the water is not retreating so I guess no #tsunami? #Solomon Back to bed for now. "”

• Magnitude 6.7 MAURITIUS - REUNION REGION July 26, 2012
• Magnitude 6.5 SOLOMON ISLANDS July 25, 2012
• Magnitude 6.4 SIMEULUE, INDONESIA July 25, 2012
• Magnitude 5.2 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA July 21, 2012
• Magnitude 5.1 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA July 21, 2012

Manmade Events: Friday morning July 20th at 12:39am local time, a gunman entered a movie theater at 14300 E. Alameda Avenue in Aurora Colorado. As of 8:18am local time this morning the Denver Post reporst that about 50 were shot and 12 are killed. Victims have been transported to at least 6 hospitals - some in police cars. The suspects apartment in Northern Aurora is being searched and police have evacuated an area around the building for precaution.  After his arrest, the suspect made a statement about possible explosives in his home. source:  The Denver Post published a map of the location of the nearby hospitals  #SMEM.  Humanity Road volunteers shared information on how to communicate during disaster, information on emotional/disaster distress line.

Severe Weather China:  Volunteer Yakubu from Ghana activated the volunteer disaster desk reporting about the Heaviest rains in 60 years kill 37 in Beijing [The Chinese capital's heaviest rainstorm in six decades killed at least 37 people, flooded streets and stranded 80,000 people at the main airport, state media and the government said on Sunday July 22 with Cyclone #Vicente.    Gusts of 193 km were tracked on tweet reported “Last gust I saw recorded at Ngong Ping (elevated) before it was knocked out was 193km/h pic.twitter.com/VI4Av10X”

Hashtags tracked included #typhoon #hongkong #vicente #09W #t10 #HK #TY201208 #Hanoi

Severe Weather USA  continued in the USA with storms moving across the USA SOUIX FALLS, SD

Reported (ArgusLeader911 ‏@Argus911) A power outage at the city’s purification plant has reduced the amount of water production available And City calls for immediate water restrictions http://tinyurl.com/dyrzozs   ComEd said as of 10 a.m., 165,000 customers were without power, down from 183,000 an hour and 15 minutes earlier. The outages included 45,000 in the city, 17,000 in the north suburbs, 62,000 in the western suburbs and 41,000 in the south suburbs." http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/07/24/severe-thunderstorms-blowing-into-chicago-area/#photo-1

Hashtags monitored:  #Derecho #Tornado #MD #VA #WVA #RVA #DC #NC #PAwx #CTwx #MAwx

Volunteers reporting in included: Yakubu, Christoph, Cindy, Caz, Bettie,  Paul, Chris, Cat

Volunteers responded to a 6.7 earthquake, south of Java, Indonesia. Apr 4 3:06am at epicenter (11m ago, 224km ENE of Christmas Island, depth 10km). http://j.mp/fCJvAu.   The quake was centered closed to Gempa 7,1 SR Guncang Cilacap, Berpotensi Tsunami http://bit.ly/hD1a72.  And there was some confusion on twitter over the tsunami warning.  Tsunami and EQ awareness tweets were released.

<<< #Tsunami Awareness: A strong #quake lasting 20 seconds or more near coast may generate a tsunami http://bit.ly/b43VJQ v @RedCross #hmr[5:06 PM] HR Christoph Dennenmoser:

<<< After #earthquake – Expect aftershocks & stay away from damaged areas. http://bit.ly/9T7IsB #hmrd #indonesia #java[5:34 PM] HR Christoph Dennenmoser:

<<< After #earthquake - Send IMOK to your relatives! #hmrd #indonesia #javaUSGS Logs indicate Only two individuals reported feeling the shaking and another tweet was sent out to notify them where to report if they feel it "Did you feel it shaking? report it to USGS here http://1.usa.gov/hJnEel  #hmrd #earthquake #indonesia #java".  

Indonesia's Meteorology and Geophysics Agency said that the quake was 10 kilometres deep with its epicentre 293 kilometres southwest of Cilacap in central Java.  The quake had the potential to cause a tsunami, it said, asking recipients of its public alert SMS to warn other people of the danger.  The US Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said that there was no risk of a widespread destructive wave, but there was a "very small possibility of a local tsunami".  We monitored twitter for urgent needs and found none reported thusfar.  Will continue to monitor for aftershocks. 

Volunteers who worked this event:  Avi Sharma, Christoph Dennemoser and Simone Coutinho (who went to twitter jail again - hang in there Taz"