Description
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.
Contact
Contributors
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- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en
How to cite
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) (2017): Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands (2017-09-19). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/28525c65-4884-4b68-b88c-b94793dbbd88
Keywords
Copernicus Copernicus Emergency Management Service Copernicus Service Storm Copernicus Emergency Management Service Rapid Mapping Activation US Virgin Islands Emergency Copernicus EMS VIR Emergency Management EMSR243 Mapping CEMS PRI Puerto Rico Rapid Mapping
Data access
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
Type | Value |
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GML | <gml:Envelope srsName="http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/OGC/1.3/CRS84"><gml:lowerCorner>-66.847390729 17.5766274253</gml:lowerCorner><gml:upperCorner>-64.5568053835 18.5863143244</gml:upperCorner></gml:Envelope> |
GEO | POLYGON((-66.847390729 18.5863143244,-64.5568053835 18.5863143244,-64.5568053835 17.5766274253,-66.847390729 17.5766274253,-66.847390729 18.5863143244)) |
GEO | {"type":"Polygon","crs":{"type":"name","properties":{"name":"urn:ogc:def:crs:OGC:1.3:CRS84"}},"coordinates":[[[-66.847390729,18.5863143244],[-64.5568053835,18.5863143244],[-64.5568053835,17.5766274253],[-66.847390729,17.5766274253],[-66.847390729,18.5863143244]]]} |
Lineage information
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Additional information
- Published by
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- Created date
- 2021-04-23
- Modified date
- 2021-04-19
- Issued date
- 2017-09-19
- Landing page
- https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR243
- Language(s)
- English
- Data theme(s)
- Regions and cities, Science and technology
- Update frequency
- unknown
- Identifier
- http://data.europa.eu/89h/28525c65-4884-4b68-b88c-b94793dbbd88
- Popularity
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