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Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands (2017-09-19)

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Activation time (UTC): 2017-09-19 18:07:00

Event time (UTC): 2017-09-19 00:00:00

Event type: Storm (Tropical cyclone, hurricane, typhoon)

Activation reason:

Maria is the sixth hurricane to have formed in the Atlantic Basin this season. Rainfall on many of the islands on Maria’s path could cause life-threatening flash floods and mudslides. In the Dominican Republic, the National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC) has convened in advance of Hurricane Maria and has already placed 20 provinces on alert for hurricane conditions. Authorities are evaluating priority evacuation zones.

Reference products: 0

Delineation products: 11

Grading products: 0

Copernicus Emergency Management Service - Mapping is a service funded by European Commission aimed at providing actors in the management of natural and man-made disasters, in particular Civil Protection Authorities and Humanitarian Aid actors, with mapping products based on satellite imagery.

How to cite

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (2026): Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands (2017-09-19). [Dataset] doi: 10.2905/JRC.XE8PM30 PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/28525c65-4884-4b68-b88c-b94793dbbd88

Keywords

CEMSCopernicusCopernicus Emergency Management ServiceCopernicus Emergency Management Service Rapid Mapping ActivationCopernicus EMSCopernicus ServiceEmergencyEmergency ManagementEMSR243MappingPRIPuerto RicoRapid MappingStormUS Virgin IslandsVIR

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Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping Activation [EMSR243]: Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands (2017-09-19)
Esri Shape

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Use conditions
European Commission reuse notice

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Access conditions
No limitations

Anybody can directly and anonymously access the data, without being required to register or authenticate.

  • All maps produced in scope of this Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping activation downloadable as georeferenced PDFs, TIFFs and JPEGs together with relevant vector data (SHP, KML) as well.

Spatial coverage

Lineage information

No additional information

Additional information

Published by
European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Contact email
jrc-data-support (at) ec.europa.eu
Update frequency
unknown

The event occurs with unknown regularity.

Language(s)
English

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Data theme(s)
Regions and cities

dataset theme covering the domains of regions and cities, where regions is defined by political geography units including sovereign states, subnational administrative areas, and multinational groupings, and cities are characterised as large human settlements
Science and technology

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Issued date
2017-09-19
Created date
02 Mar 2026 17:07
Modified date
19 Apr 2021 03:34
Landing page
https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR243 
Dataset identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/28525c65-4884-4b68-b88c-b94793dbbd88
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