- Title
- Somalia Regions hit by 2015 Tropical Cyclone Chapala
- Abstract
On November 2, 2015 Cyclone Chapala entered the Gulf of Aden as the strongest tropical cyclone on record. The storm dropped heavy rainfall in Puntland and Somaliland.
This layer shows the occurence of TC Chapala in two Somalia regions: Bari and Woqooyi Galbeed Provinces. TC Chapala first made a landfall in Yemen; however, its effects were also felt across the Gulf of Aden in Somalia where extensive rainfall was experienced in the Northern Bari region in Bosaso district, Puntland.
- License
- Not Specified
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- Publication Date
- April 12, 2022, 10:31 a.m.
- Type
- Vector Data
- Category
- Disaster Risks
- Information used for appropriate actions for future use of the land. Examples: land use maps, zoning maps, cadastral surveys, land ownership.
- Regions
- Africa, Somalia
- Approved
- Yes
- Published
- Yes
- Featured
- No
- DOI
- None
- Attribution
- ICPAC
- Name
- IGAD DRM Team (IGAD_DRM)
- disaster-risk-management@igad.int
- Position
- Data Risk Management
- Organization
- ICPAC
- Location
- Nairobi KEN
- Voice
- None
- Fax
- None
- Identification Image
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- Spatial Extent
- ---
- Projection System
- EPSG:4326
- Extension x0
- 43.28964982600007
- Extension x1
- 51.413032532000045
- Extension y0
- 8.329124517000025
- Extension y1
- 11.985202789000027
- Maintenance Frequency
- Data Is Updated As Deemed Necessary
- Language
- English
- Temporal Extent
- Nov. 2, 2015, midnight - Nov. 5, 2015, midnight
- Supplemental Information
TC Chapala was characterized by heavy rainfall that had adverse impacts in the regions. It resulted to death of over 25,000 animals and left thousands of people homeless, leaving some local nomadic tribes without any food.
Impacts recorded included:
- Number of people affected: up to 80% of the population.
- Number of people worst hit: 500 families(4000ppl)
- Number of people displaced: 4000
- Livestock destroyed: 3,000 sheep and goats and 200 camels
- Spatial Representation Type
- vector data is used to represent geographic data
- Name
- IGAD DRM Team (IGAD_DRM)
- disaster-risk-management@igad.int
- Position
- Data Risk Management
- Organization
- ICPAC
- Location
- Nairobi KEN
- Voice
- None
- Fax
- None
- Link Online
- /layers/icpac_geoportal_data:geonode:a__2015_TC_Chapala
- Metadata Page
- /layers/icpac_geoportal_data:geonode:a__2015_TC_Chapala/metadata_detail
- OGC WMS: geonode Service
- Geoservice OGC:WMS
- OGC WFS: geonode Service
- Geoservice OGC:WFS
- Name
- IGAD DRM Team (IGAD_DRM)
- disaster-risk-management@igad.int
- Position
- Data Risk Management
- Organization
- ICPAC
- Location
- Nairobi KEN
- Voice
- None
- Fax
- None