DATASET

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

Collection: CEMS-RRM : CEMS Risk and Recovery Mapping 

Description


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).  

Contact

Email
jrc-ems-rapidmapping (at) ec.europa.eu

Contributors

How to cite

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

Keywords

CEMS Copernicus Copernicus Emergency Management Service Copernicus EMS Copernicus Service Emergency Emergency Management EMSN081 Industrial accident LBN Lebanon Mapping Copernicus Emergency Management Service Risk and Recovery Mapping Activation Risk 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)
URL 
  • 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

Type Value
GML
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GML
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WKT
POLYGON ((35.46458 33.91618, 35.58812 33.91618, 35.58812 33.81084, 35.46458 33.81084, 35.46458 33.91618))

Lineage information

No additional information

Additional information

Published by
European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Created date
2021-04-12
Modified date
2021-04-12
Issued date
2020-08-05
Landing page
https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSN081 
Language(s)
English
Data theme(s)
Regions and cities, Science and technology
Update frequency
unknown
Identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/75ab2c59-3de5-48d0-b21a-cda08ce42c2d
Popularity
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