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If NO selections are made, ALL items will be selected Type keywords:     Looking for: All Words Any Word Search between these dates: (yyyy-mm-dd) From: To: Hits per page: 10 25 50 100 200      Sorted by: GLIDE Country, Event, Date Country, Date, Event Event, Country, Date Event, Date, Country Date, Country, Event Date, Event, Country Search Results: No search results Glide Number Event Country Comment	GLIDEnumber: About Glide How to Join Participating Institutions GLIDE-enabled sites Help Topics Disclaimer Get results as: Statistics Charts Tabular reports Latest Events: Disasters on week 34 or after From 2008/8/17 To 2008/8/28 EQ-2008-000144-CHN Earthquake,China, P Rep: About 2,000 people were safely evacuated from their homes after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region late on Monday. TC-2008-000143-HTI Tropical Cyclone,Haiti: On 25 August 2008, a tropical depression in the Caribbean strengthened into tropical storm Gustav; on 26 August it rapidly became a category one hurricane on the saffir-simpson scale causing heavy rain in the southeastern part of Haiti. The eye of hurricane Gustav made landfall on the southwest peninsula of Haiti, approximately 10 miles west of Jacmel, on 26 August shortly after 13:00. Airports, sea ports and public offices have been closed and evacuation activities have begun. The government has opened some 76 emergency shelters in the southern part of the country (Nippes: 20 emergency shelters have been opened) and has maintained a red alert in the departments of south east, south, Nippes, west, Grand-Anse, Artibonite and Centre. Coordination between local authorities (local civil defence) and local Red Cross branches have been active. Regular information bulletins were provided by the government officials. TC-2008-000143-DOM Tropical Cyclone,Dominican Rep: Regarding Tropical Storm Gustav, the government of the Dominican Republic has issued a Tropical Storm Warning for the south coast of the Dominican Republic from Santo Domingo westward to the southern border of Haiti. TC-2008-000142-MEX Tropical Cyclone,Mexico: Regarding Tropical Storm Julio, the government of Mexico has issued a Tropical Storm Warning for the Baja California Peninsula. FF-2008-000141-ETH Flash Flood,Ethiopia: Two rivers in the Gambella region of western Ethiopia have burst their banks following torrential rains that fell in the area for three consecutive days, government officials in the area said. "We have not yet finalised our assessment, however, an estimated 10,000 to 11,000 people have been displaced," Akway Abala, team leader for the Disaster Prevention and Food Security Department of Gambella region EQ-2008-000138-CHN Earthquake,China, P Rep: A 5.9-magnitude quake struck on 21 August 2008 in Yunnan Province, southwest China killed three and injured about 100. FL-2008-000136-IND Flood,India: Floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains left some 50,000 people homeless in India's remote northeast.