Safety Alerts

On 8/16/2010 7:35:48 PM, an earthquake of magnitude 6.2 and depth 594.8km occurred in Tonga. This earthquake potentially affected <10000 people.

This advice has been reviewed and reissued. The overall level of the advice has not changed.

On 8/16/2010 3:30:55 AM, an earthquake of magnitude 6.3 and depth 10.6km occurred in Mauritius. This earthquake potentially affected no people.

This advice has been reviewed and reissued. It includes new information under Entry and Exit Requirements (fee introduced for the Electronic System for Travel Authorisation). The overall level of the advice has not changed.

On 8/15/2010 3:09:30 PM, an earthquake of magnitude 6.3 and depth 183.1km occurred in Papua New Guinea. This earthquake potentially affected 69000 people.

On 8/14/2010 11:01:05 PM, an earthquake of magnitude 6.6 and depth 22.5km occurred in Guam. This earthquake potentially affected no people.

On 8/14/2010 7:30:16 AM, an earthquake of magnitude 6.3 and depth 9.7km occurred in Guam. This earthquake potentially affected no people.

On 8/13/2010 9:19:33 PM, an earthquake of magnitude 6.9 and depth 10km occurred in Guam. This earthquake potentially affected no people.

This advice has been reviewed and reissued. It contains new information in the Summary and under Safety and Security: Terrorism (High risk of terrorist attack in New Delhi and recent attacks in other parts of India by extremist groups) and Civil Unrest and Political Tension (violent clashes in Jammu and Kashmir in July and August 2010). New information is also provided in relation to the Commonwealth Games. The overall level of the advice has not changed.

This advice has been reviewed and reissued. It contains new information in the Summary and under Safety and Security: Civil Unrest/Political Tension (Security incident in Honiara on 12 August 2010). The overall level of the advice has not changed.

This advice has been reviewed and reissued. The overall level of the advice has not changed.

This advice has been reviewed and reissued. The overall level of the advice has not changed.

This advice has been reviewed and reissued. The overall level of the advice has not changed.

This advice has been reviewed and reissued. The overall level of the advice has not changed.

This advice has been reviewed and reissued. The overall level of the advice has not changed.

This advice has been reviewed and reissued. The overall level of the advice has not changed.

Tropical Storm DIANMU-10 affected 17.6 million people with winds above 39mph (63 km/h) and few people with hurricane wind strengths (74mph or 119 km/h). In addition, few people are living in coastal areas below 5m and can therefore be affected by storm surge.

This advice has been reviewed and reissued. It contains new information in the Summary and under Civil Unrest/Political Tension (US Government warning of possible attacks on long weekend of 12-15 August 2010 and Thai Government warnings about possible bomb attacks in August 2010). The overall level of the advice has not changed.

This advice has been reviewed and reissued. It contains new information in the Summary and under Natural Disasters, Severe weather and climate (Earthquakes). The overall level of the advice has not changed.

This advice has been reviewed and reissued. It contains new information in the summary and under Safety and Security: Terrorism (killing of foreign medical team in Badakhshan province in August 2010 and possible plan by militants to kidnap foreign workers in Dur Baba District, Nangahar). The overall level of the advice has not changed.