WESA40 EJRC 070739 EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI ALERT MESSAGE NUMBER 001 THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC ALERT FROM THE GLOBAL DISASTER ALERTS AND COORDINATION SYSTEM (WWW.GDACS.ORG). THE DISSEMINATION THROUGH GTS OF THIS PRODUCT IS INTENDED AS GUIDANCE IN SUPPORT OF UN ACTIVITIES: IT IS A PILOT PROJECT BETWEEN WMO AND JRC TO TEST COMMUNICATION AND DISSEMINATION CHANNELS OF VALUE-ADDED PRODUCTS. ***************************************************** * GREEN EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI ALERT IN CHILE * ***************************************************** SUMMARY ON 07 NOV 2015 07:31:41 UTC (ABOUT 07 NOV 2015 02:46:02 LOCAL TIME) AN EARTHQUAKE OF MAGNITUDE 6.8 OCCURRED IN THE HIGHLY POPULATED REGION OF SAN JUAN IN CHILE. NO NEAREST POPULATED PLACES FOUND . THE CLOSEST CIVILIAN AIRPORT IS: SANTA ROSA DE TABALI (23.8 KM). ACCORDING TO THE GDACS TSUNAMI SCENARIO CALCULATION THIS EVENT COULD POTENTIALLY GENERATE A TSUNAMI. THE MAXIMUM ESTIMATED HEIGHT IS 0.1 M, OCCURRING AT QUILLAICILLO (CHILE) AT 1/1/2006 12:07:00 AM UTC. EARTHQUAKE EVENT CHARACTERISTICS - SOURCE: GEOFON - MAGNITUDE: 6.8 M - DEPTH: 34 KM - LOCATION (LAT/LONG): -30.88 | -71.41 - COUNTRY: CHILE - PROVINCE: - REGION: NEAR COAST OF CENTRAL CHILE - UTC/GMT (GREENWICH TIME): 07 NOV 2015 07:31:41 UTC - ESTIMATED LOCAL SOLAR TIME: 07 NOV 2015 02:46:02 ALERT SUMMARY ------------- EARTHQUAKE :GREEN TSUNAMI :GREEN ============================================================================================================ POTENTIALLY AFFECTED CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: - NUCLEAR PLANTS: N/A - HYDRODAMS: N/A - AIRPORTS: SANTA ROSA DE TABALI (23.8 KM), OVALLE (57.1 KM) - PORTS: N/A BASED ON AN AUTOMATED IMPACT MODEL, THIS EARTHQUAKE, WHICH OCCURRED IN A REGION WITH LOW VULNERABILITY TO NATURAL DISASTERS, HAS POTENTIALLY A LOW HUMANITARIAN IMPACT. EVENT DATE UNIV. TIME: SAT, 07 NOV 2015 07:31:41 UTC EUROPEAN TIME OF THE EVENT: 07 NOV 2015 08:31:41 EAST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 07 NOV 2015 01:31:41 WEST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 06 NOV 2015 22:31:41 EAST ASIA TIME OF THE EVENT: 07 NOV 2015 15:31:41 THIS EMAIL REPORT WAS AUTOMATICALLY CREATED BY A COMPUTER AT: 07 NOV 2015 07:39:21 (7 MIN AFTER THE EVENT) SEE THE GDACS WEBSITE FOR LIVE NEWS COVERAGE (INCLUDING OCHA SITUATION REPORTS), THE FULL EARTHQUAKE REPORT IS AT HTTP://WWW.GDACS.ORG/REPORT.ASPX?EVENTTYPE=EQ$AND;EPISODEID=1105125 FOR INFORMATION ON EMERGENCY RESPONSE, PLEASE CONSULT THE GDACS VIRTUAL OSOCC: HTTP://VOSOCC.UNOCHA.ORG ============================================================================================================ LIST OF 10 HEIGHEST WAVE LOCATIONS ARRIVALTIME (UTC) LOCATION COUNTRY MAX EST. HEIGHT (M) 07 NOV 2015 07:38 QUILLAICILLO CHILE 0.1 07 NOV 2015 07:40 ANGOSTURA CHILE 0.1 07 NOV 2015 07:44 HUENTELAUQUT CHILE 0.1 07 NOV 2015 07:38 MAITENCILLO CHILE 0.1 07 NOV 2015 07:43 CHIGUALOCO CHILE 0.1 07 NOV 2015 07:44 PICHIDANGUI CHILE 0.0 07 NOV 2015 07:52 LOS VILOS CHILE 0.0 07 NOV 2015 07:52 CONCHALF CHILE 0.0 07 NOV 2015 07:44 TOTORALILLO CHILE 0.0 07 NOV 2015 08:02 YECO CHILE 0.0 07 NOV 2015 08:02 ALGARROBO CHILE 0.0 THE FULL LIST OF LOCATIONS CAN BE VISUALIZED IN THE GDACS PAGE OF THE EVENT: HTTP://WWW.GDACS.ORG/REPORT.ASPX?EVENTTYPE=EQ$AND;EPISODEID=1105125 ============================================================================================================ POPULATION DENSITY NEAR EPICENTER (PEOPLE/KM2). RADIUS (KM) POPULATION DENSITY (PEOPLE/KM2) 200 807752.0 103 175 713480.0 91 150 646328.0 82 125 640329.0 82 100 238141.0 30 75 177194.0 23 50 144939.0 18 20 12720.0 2 10 2592.0 0 5 414.0 0 2 43.0 0 THE POPULATION IN THE 50 KM AREA OF THIS EARTHQUAKE IS 18 PEOPLE/KM2. ============================================================================================================ THE EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED AT 07 NOV 2015 02:46:02 LOCAL TIME. 07 NOV 2015 02:46:02 RESILIENCE AND VULNERABILITY ---------------------------- RESILIENCE IS THE CAPACITY OF THE POPULATION TO COPE WITH A HAZARD. SINCE MUCH OF INVESTMENTS IN EARTHQUAKE PREPAREDNESS AND AVAILABLE FUNDS FOR QUICK RESPONSE IS RELATED TO HOUSEHOLD INCOME, THE GDP PER CAPITA CAN BE USED AS A ROUGH INDICATOR OF RESILIENCE. CHILE HAS A GDP PER CAPITA OF 5121 PPP$ (PARITY PURCHASING POWER DOLLAR, ABOUT 1 EURO) AND IS THEREFORE PART OF THE MEDIUM LEVEL INCOME COUNTRIES. THEREFORE, THE EARTHQUAKE HAPPENED IN AN AREA OF MEDIUM RESILIENCE. BASED ON THE COMBINATION OF 9 INDICATORS, ECHO ATTRIBUTES CHILE A LOW VULNERABILITY. ============================================================================================================ SECONDARY EFFECTS ----------------- PROBABILITY OF SECONDARY EFFECTS: - LANDSLIDES: THE MAXIMUM SLOPE IN THE AREA OF THE EARTHQUAKE IS 68% AND THE MAXIMUM ALTITUDE IS 4792.0 M. SINCE THIS IS A HIGH SLOPE, THE RISK OF EARTHQUAKE INDUCED LANDSLIDES IS HIGH. NOTE, HOWEVER, THAT THE SLOPE DATA IS NOT RELIABLE ON A LOCAL SCALE, WHILE LANDSLIDES DEPEND VERY MUCH ON LOCAL TOPOGRAPHY, SOIL AND METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS. - NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS: THERE ARE NO NUCLEAR FACILITIES NEARBY THE EPICENTER. - HYDRODAMS: THERE ARE NO HYDRODAM FACILITIES NEARBY THE EPICENTER. 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