2020-08-08
Emergency Obs. Request Information
- Disaster Type: Explosion
- Country: Lebanon
- Occurrence Date (UTC): 04 August, 2020
- SA activation Date(UTC): 08 August, 2020
- Requester: Disaster and Emergency Management Authority of Turkey (AFAD)
- Escalation to the International Charter:
- GLIDE Number:
Disaster Situation
On the evening of 4 August 2020, a sequence of two explosions occurred at the port of the city of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. The extremely powerful second blast resulted in at least 157 deaths, 5,000 injuries, US$10–15 billion in property damage and an estimated 300,000 people made homeless.
Satellite Image
Before Disaster
NARL
2018-04-04
FORMOSAT-5 Product Level4 MS
Apr. 4, 2018
2018-04-04
FORMOSAT-5 Product Level4 PAN
Apr. 4, 2018
2018-04-04
FORMOSAT-5 Product Level4 PMS
Apr. 4, 2018
JAXA
2019-05-22
ALOS-2 PALSAR-2,
May 22, 2019
After Disaster
NARL
2020-08-07
FORMOSAT-5 Product Level4 MS
Aug. 7, 2020
2020-08-07
FORMOSAT-5 Product Level4 PAN
Aug. 7, 2020
2020-08-07
FORMOSAT-5 Product Level4 PMS
Aug. 7, 2020
2020-08-09
FORMOSAT-5 Product Level4 MS
Aug. 9, 2020
2020-08-09
FORMOSAT-5 Product Level4 PAN
Aug. 9, 2020
2020-08-09
FORMOSAT-5 Product Level4 PMS
Aug. 9, 2020
2020-08-11
FORMOSAT-5 Product Level4 MS
Aug. 11, 2020
2020-08-11
FORMOSAT-5 Product Level4 PAN
Aug. 11, 2020
2020-08-11
FORMOSAT-5 Product Level4 PMS
Aug. 11, 2020
GISTDA
2020-08-07
THEOS1 SCENE level 1A, Aug. 7, 2020
2020-08-07
THEOS1 SCENE level 2A, Aug. 7, 2020
2020-08-08
THEOS1 SCENE level 1A, Aug. 8, 2020
2020-08-09
THEOS1 SCENE level 2A, Aug. 9, 2020
ISRO
2020-08-10
Carotsat-2E,
Aug. 10, 2020
JAXA
2020-08-12
ALOS-2 PALSAR-2,
Aug. 12, 2020
MBRSC
2020-08-05
KhalifaSat,
Aug. 5, 2020
Product
AIT
2020-08-09
INDUSTRIAL EXPLOSION IN BEIRUT, LEBANON
As observed by FORMOSAT-5 image on 09 August 2020
GIC-AIT (v1.0)
2020-08-12
INDUSTRIAL EXPLOSION IN BEIRUT, LEBANON
As observed by ALOS2 on 12 Augast 2020 and THEOS-1 on 08 August 2020
GIC-AIT (v1.0)
EOS
2020-08-04-05
ARIA-SG Flood Proxy Map:
Lebanon,Explosion,4-5 Aug. 2020,v0.5
Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS)/NASA-JPL/Caltech/ARIA-SG team
MBRSC
