WEEC40 EJRC 132108 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 JAPAN * ***************************************************** SUMMARY ON 13 NOV 2015 20:51:00 UTC (ABOUT 14 NOV 2015 05:25:47 LOCAL TIME) AN EARTHQUAKE OF MAGNITUDE 7 OCCURRED IN THE UNPOPULATED REGION OF KYUSHU IN JAPAN. KAGOSHIMA THE NEAREST POPULATED PLACES ARE: KAGOSHIMA (191.4 KM). NO CLOSEST CIVILIAN AIRPORT FOUND. ACCORDING TO THE GDACS TSUNAMI SCENARIO CALCULATION THIS EVENT COULD POTENTIALLY GENERATE A TSUNAMI. THE MAXIMUM ESTIMATED HEIGHT IS 0.2 M, OCCURRING AT HOMMURA (JAPAN) AT 1/1/2006 12:23:00 AM UTC. EARTHQUAKE EVENT CHARACTERISTICS - SOURCE: PTWC - MAGNITUDE: 7 M - DEPTH: 10 KM - LOCATION (LAT/LONG): 30.9 | 128.7 - COUNTRY: JAPAN - PROVINCE: KYUSHU(REGION) - REGION: NORTHWEST OF RYUKYU ISLANDS - UTC/GMT (GREENWICH TIME): 13 NOV 2015 20:51:00 UTC - ESTIMATED LOCAL SOLAR TIME: 14 NOV 2015 05:25:47 ALERT SUMMARY ------------- EARTHQUAKE :GREEN TSUNAMI :GREEN ============================================================================================================ 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 LOW HUMANITARIAN IMPACT. EVENT DATE UNIV. TIME: FRI, 13 NOV 2015 20:51:00 UTC EUROPEAN TIME OF THE EVENT: 13 NOV 2015 21:51:00 EAST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 13 NOV 2015 14:51:00 WEST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 13 NOV 2015 11:51:00 EAST ASIA TIME OF THE EVENT: 14 NOV 2015 04:51:00 THIS EMAIL REPORT WAS AUTOMATICALLY CREATED BY A COMPUTER AT: 13 NOV 2015 21:08:45 (17 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$AND;EPISODEID=1106279 FOR INFORMATION ON EMERGENCY RESPONSE, PLEASE CONSULT THE GDACS VIRTUAL OSOCC: HTTP://VOSOCC.UNOCHA.ORG ============================================================================================================ LIST OF 10 HEIGHEST WAVE LOCATIONS ARRIVALTIME (UTC) LOCATION COUNTRY MAX EST. HEIGHT (M) 13 NOV 2015 21:14 HOMMURA JAPAN 0.2 13 NOV 2015 21:14 SHIMMWA JAPAN 0.2 13 NOV 2015 21:14 MUKAEHAMA JAPAN 0.2 13 NOV 2015 21:14 NANAKAMA JAPAN 0.2 13 NOV 2015 21:19 KURIO JAPAN 0.2 13 NOV 2015 21:21 SEGIRE JAPAN 0.2 13 NOV 2015 21:21 NAKAMA JAPAN 0.2 13 NOV 2015 21:22 YUDOMARI JAPAN 0.2 13 NOV 2015 21:19 NAGATA JAPAN 0.1 13 NOV 2015 21:28 MAKURAZUKI JAPAN 0.1 13 NOV 2015 21:23 HIRAUCHI JAPAN 0.1 THE FULL LIST OF LOCATIONS CAN BE VISUALIZED IN THE GDACS PAGE OF THE EVENT: HTTP://WWW.GDACS.ORG/REPORT.ASPX?EVENTTYPE=EQ$AND;EPISODEID=1106279 ============================================================================================================ POPULATION DENSITY NEAR EPICENTER (PEOPLE/KM2). RADIUS (KM) POPULATION DENSITY (PEOPLE/KM2) 200 1052311 134 175 137686 18 150 5466 1 125 840 0 100 45 0 75 1 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 14 NOV 2015 05:25:47 LOCAL TIME. 14 NOV 2015 05:25:47 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. JAPAN HAS A GDP PER CAPITA OF 42318 PPP$ (PARITY PURCHASING POWER DOLLAR, ABOUT 1 EURO) AND IS THEREFORE PART OF THE HIGH LEVEL INCOME COUNTRIES. THEREFORE, THE EARTHQUAKE HAPPENED IN AN AREA OF HIGH RESILIENCE. BASED ON THE COMBINATION OF 9 INDICATORS, ECHO ATTRIBUTES JAPAN 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 1 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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