Overall Red alert Tropical Cyclone for PAM-15
in Vanuatu

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone PAM-15 can have a high humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1000149
Name PAM-15
From - To 09 Mar - 15 Mar
Exposed countries Vanuatu
Exposed population 90 thousand in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 278 km/h Category 5
Maximum storm surge
Vulnerability Medium (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 121 km/h 0 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
GFS n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
ECMWF n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
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Meteo assessment
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Latest media headlines

Au Vanuatu, le lycée francophone de Montmartre dévasté 3/19/2015 11:38:00 AM.

C'est sûrement l'un des bâtiments les plus endommagés par le cyclone Pam au Vanuatu : dressé au coeur d'un parc dont même les arbres les plus anciens ont ployé sous la violence des rafales, le lycée de Montmartre n'est plus qu'un champ de r
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Warning that Vanuatu is facing long term food shortages because of dam.. 3/19/2015 11:36:00 AM.

6 minutes ago Warning that Vanuatu is facing long term food shortages because of damage to crops. It is feared the death toll from Cyclone Pam could rise when communications are restored in the region. Survivors of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu ar
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L’archipel de Vanuatu sauvé par ses traditions 3/19/2015 11:35:00 AM.

Six jours après le passage dévastateur du cyclone Pam sur l’archipel de Vanuatu, le bilan exhaustif de la catastrophe est encore impossible à établir. S’il est avéré que le phénomène a endommagé au moins 80 % des bâtiments et habitations et
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Le Vanuatu reproche aux ONG un manque de coordination, dit que la pénu.. 3/19/2015 10:51:00 AM.

Port-Vila (Vanuatu) (AFP) Le gouvernement du Vanuatu a reproché aux organisations humanitaires mobilisées dans l'archipel dévasté par un violent cyclone un défaut de coordination qui a coûté un temps précieux aux secours et averti que la fa
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: UNOSAT (1), EC-JRC (46), (2), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2),