Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for MARIA-12
Off-shore

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone MARIA-12 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 33103
Name MARIA-12
From - To 14 Oct - 19 Oct
Exposed countries Off-shore
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 101 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge n.a.
Vulnerability -- ()

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
JRC 47 km/h n.a. 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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Latest media headlines

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7 experts convicted for not warning of quake risk 10/22/2012 11:53:00 PM.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

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