WENT40 EJRC 100036 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. ****************************************** * ORANGE TSUNAMI ALERT IN PORTUGAL * ****************************************** SUMMARY ON 10 NOV 2015 00:00:00 UTC (ABOUT 09 NOV 2015 23:20:00 LOCAL TIME) AN EARTHQUAKE OF MAGNITUDE 7.9 OCCURRED IN THE UNPOPULATED REGION OF FARO IN PORTUGAL. NO NEAREST POPULATED PLACES FOUND . NO CLOSEST CIVILIAN AIRPORT FOUND. ACCORDING TO THE GDACS TSUNAMI SCENARIO CALCULATION THIS EVENT COULD POTENTIALLY GENERATE A TSUNAMI. THE MAXIMUM ESTIMATED HEIGHT IS 1.6 M, OCCURRING AT VILA DO BISPO (PORTUGAL) AT 1/1/2006 12:28:00 AM UTC. EARTHQUAKE EVENT CHARACTERISTICS - SOURCE: IM - MAGNITUDE: 7.9 M - DEPTH: 30 KM - LOCATION (LAT/LONG): 36 | -10 - COUNTRY: PORTUGAL - PROVINCE: FARO(DISTRICT) - REGION: WEST OF GIBRALTAR - UTC/GMT (GREENWICH TIME): 10 NOV 2015 00:00:00 UTC - ESTIMATED LOCAL SOLAR TIME: 09 NOV 2015 23:20:00 ============================================================================================================ POTENTIALLY AFFECTED CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: - NUCLEAR PLANTS: N/A - HYDRODAMS: N/A - AIRPORTS: N/A - 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 MEDIUM HUMANITARIAN IMPACT. EVENT DATE UNIV. TIME: TUE, 10 NOV 2015 00:00:00 UTC EUROPEAN TIME OF THE EVENT: 10 NOV 2015 01:00:00 EAST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 09 NOV 2015 18:00:00 WEST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 09 NOV 2015 15:00:00 EAST ASIA TIME OF THE EVENT: 10 NOV 2015 08:00:00 THIS EMAIL REPORT WAS AUTOMATICALLY CREATED BY A COMPUTER AT: 10 NOV 2015 00:36:21 (36 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$AND;EPISODEID=1105606 FOR INFORMATION ON EMERGENCY RESPONSE, PLEASE CONSULT THE GDACS VIRTUAL OSOCC: HTTP://VOSOCC.UNOCHA.ORG ============================================================================================================ LIST OF 10 HEIGHEST WAVE LOCATIONS ARRIVALTIME (UTC) LOCATION COUNTRY MAX EST. HEIGHT (M) 10 NOV 2015 00:28 VILA DO BISP PORTUGAL 1.6 10 NOV 2015 00:28 RAPOSEIRA PORTUGAL 1.6 10 NOV 2015 00:36 ZAMBUJEIRA D PORTUGAL 1.3 10 NOV 2015 00:36 SPO TEOT=NIO PORTUGAL 1.3 10 NOV 2015 00:34 ALDEIA NOVA PORTUGAL 1.3 10 NOV 2015 00:34 ODECEIXE PORTUGAL 1.3 10 NOV 2015 00:43 CAVALEIRO PORTUGAL 1.3 10 NOV 2015 00:34 ROGIL PORTUGAL 1.2 10 NOV 2015 00:29 CARRAPATEIRA PORTUGAL 1.1 10 NOV 2015 00:29 BORDEIRA PORTUGAL 1.1 10 NOV 2015 00:41 VILA NOVA DE PORTUGAL 1.1 THE FULL LIST OF LOCATIONS CAN BE VISUALIZED IN THE GDACS PAGE OF THE EVENT: HTTP://WWW.GDACS.ORG/REPORT.ASPX?EVENTTYPE=EQ$AND;EPISODEID=1105606 ============================================================================================================ POPULATION DENSITY NEAR EPICENTER (PEOPLE/KM2). RADIUS (KM) POPULATION DENSITY (PEOPLE/KM2) 200 187584 24 175 48440 6 150 4507 1 125 0 0 100 0 0 75 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 THE POPULATION IN THE 50 KM AREA OF THIS EARTHQUAKE IS 0 PEOPLE/KM2. ============================================================================================================ THE EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED AT 09 NOV 2015 23:20:00 LOCAL TIME. 09 NOV 2015 23:20:00 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. PORTUGAL HAS A GDP PER CAPITA OF 12309 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 PORTUGAL A LOW VULNERABILITY. ============================================================================================================ SECONDARY EFFECTS ----------------- PROBABILITY OF SECONDARY EFFECTS: - LANDSLIDES: THE MAXIMUM SLOPE IN THE AREA OF THE EARTHQUAKE IS 0% AND THE MAXIMUM ALTITUDE IS 0 M. SINCE THIS IS A LOW SLOPE, THE RISK OF EARTHQUAKE INDUCED LANDSLIDES IS LOW. 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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