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Explosion in Beirut, Lebanon: detailed damage and impact assessment analyses (2020-08-05)

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Activation date: 2020-08-05

Event type: Industrial accident

Activation reason:

The CEMS Risk and Recovery Standard has been activated by the Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations - European Emergency Response Coordination Centre (DG-ECHO ERCC), following the explosions occurred in Beirut, Lebanon’s capital, on the 4th of August 2020. This activation aims to provide a detailed damage assessment, delivering a picture of the spatial extent and severity of the damages.With that purpose, this activation includes the following Standard Products:P08 Detailed damage assessment;P14 Impact assessment on assets and population;P13 Ready to print maps and map books for field campaigns.   P14 – Impact assessment analyses on assets and population. Population statistics derived from the combination of the P08.1 with WorldPop (top) and Facebook (bottom) population datasets. The affected population has been estimated on a building area basis, and on a building volume basis. This Risk and Recovery activation complements the Rapid Mapping activation EMSR452 (https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR452).  

How to cite

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (2026): Explosion in Beirut, Lebanon: detailed damage and impact assessment analyses (2020-08-05). [Dataset] doi: 10.2905/JRC.WH6K63G PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/75ab2c59-3de5-48d0-b21a-cda08ce42c2d

Keywords

CEMSCopernicusCopernicus Emergency Management ServiceCopernicus Emergency Management Service Risk and Recovery Mapping ActivationCopernicus EMSCopernicus ServiceEmergencyEmergency ManagementEMSN081Industrial accidentLBNLebanonMappingRisk and Recovery Mapping

Data access

Copernicus EMS Risk and Recovery Mapping Activation [EMSN081]: Explosion in Beirut, Lebanon: detailed damage and impact assessment analyses (2020-08-05)
Esri File Geodatabase

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No limitations

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  • Maps produced in scope of this Copernicus EMS Risk and Recovery Mapping activation downloadable as georeferenced PDFs, TIFFs and JPEGs together with relevant geodatabase (GDB) and complete final report as well.

Spatial coverage

Lineage information

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Additional information

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

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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
2020-08-05
Created date
02 Mar 2026 17:07
Modified date
12 Apr 2021 04:26
Landing page
https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSN081 
Dataset identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/75ab2c59-3de5-48d0-b21a-cda08ce42c2d
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