Dear OSM-Ph community,
The Philippines' Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT-Ph) kindly requests your assistance with the emergency mapping response to the recent earthquakes in Mindanao. Task 7147 <https://tasks.hotosm.org/project/7147> ( https://tasks.hotosm.org/project/7147) has been created so that we can rapidly map the building footprints of three highly affected communities the PRC is assisting. This mapping will feed into their response planning and will be shared with stakeholders, especially the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) via the Office of Civil Defense (OCD). The Philippines Red Cross has identified to the HOT Philippines team three priority communities affected by this situation for emergency mapping. They are: 1. Tulanan, North Cotobato; 2. Magsaysay, Davao Del Sur; and, 3. Kidapawan, North Cotobato. HOT-Ph kindly requests your support mapping these areas using the task linked above. The total prioritized area is approximately 970km² and we have used Facebook's Settlement Data to significantly reduce task manager assignment footprint, ensuring time is not spent scanning areas with no evidence of buildings. The population in the priority area is approximately 250k people. According to Thinking Machines' AI & ML data there are approximately 18,300 buildings to be mapped. Background: On 31 October at 9:11 a.m. Philippine time a 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck in Tulunan, Cotabato in Mindanao, which followed a 6.6-magnatitude earthquake just two days earlier in the same location. The NDRRMC reports there have been more than 1,000 aftershocks, with 14 deaths and 403 injured. This follows a recent 6.3-magnitude earthquake that occurred in the same area, causing seven deaths and 215 injured. Widespread building damage has been reported due to the multiple significant tremors According to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS), the 6.6 magnitude earthquake was tectonic in origin with a depth of 7 km and was felt in Cotabato and neighboring municipalities and provinces of five regions of Mindanao, including the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). (source: http://ndrrmc.gov.ph/attachments/article/3929/SitRep_No_05_re_Magnitude_6_6_and_6_5_Earthquakes_in_Tulunan_North_Cotabato_as_of_8PM_31_October_2019.pdf ) Communications: You can reach us on Slack on the HOTOSM channel #disaster-mapping ( https://hotosm.slack.com/messages/C4MMB6PD4), on Telegram at the OSM-Ph channel (http://t.me/OSMph) and on the official OSM-Ph Email List ( https://lists.osm.org/listinfo/talk-ph). Thanks for your support, HOT Philippines Team -- *Nick Brown* Country Manager for HOT Philippines nick.br...@hotosm.org *Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team* *Using OpenStreetMap for Disaster Risk Reduction, Response & Development* web <https://www.hotosm.org/> | twitter <https://twitter.com/hotosm> | facebook <https://www.facebook.com/HOTOSMPhilippines/>
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