WESA40 EJRC 170030 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 ECUADOR * ***************************************** SUMMARY ON 16 APR 2016 23:58:36 UTC (ABOUT 16 APR 2016 18:39:02 LOCAL TIME) AN EARTHQUAKE OF MAGNITUDE 7.5 OCCURRED IN THE VERY HIGHLY POPULATED REGION OF MANABI IN ECUADOR. PUEBLITO THE NEAREST POPULATED PLACES ARE: LA DELICIA (18.1 KM). THE CLOSEST CIVILIAN AIRPORT IS: GENERAL RIVADENEIRA (73.4 KM). ACCORDING TO THE GDACS TSUNAMI SCENARIO CALCULATION THIS EVENT COULD POTENTIALLY GENERATE A TSUNAMI. THE MAXIMUM ESTIMATED HEIGHT IS 1.7 M, OCCURRING AT CANOA (ECUADOR) AT 1/1/2006 12:20:00 AM UTC. EARTHQUAKE EVENT CHARACTERISTICS - SOURCE: GEOFON - MAGNITUDE: 7.5 M - DEPTH: 10 KM - LOCATION (LAT/LONG): 0.37 | -79.89 - COUNTRY: ECUADOR - PROVINCE: ESMERALDAS(PROVINCE) - REGION: NEAR COAST OF ECUADOR - UTC/GMT (GREENWICH TIME): 16 APR 2016 23:58:36 UTC - ESTIMATED LOCAL SOLAR TIME: 16 APR 2016 18:39:02 ============================================================================================================ POTENTIALLY AFFECTED CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: - NUCLEAR PLANTS: N/A - HYDRODAMS: N/A - AIRPORTS: GENERAL RIVADENEIRA (73.4 KM), PEDERNALES (38 KM) - PORTS: BALAO TERMINAL (74.8 KM), ESMERALDAS (72.9 KM), COJIMIES (12.7 KM) 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: SAT, 16 APR 2016 23:58:36 UTC EUROPEAN TIME OF THE EVENT: 17 APR 2016 01:58:36 EAST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 16 APR 2016 17:58:36 WEST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 16 APR 2016 14:58:36 EAST ASIA TIME OF THE EVENT: 17 APR 2016 06:58:36 THIS EMAIL REPORT WAS AUTOMATICALLY CREATED BY A COMPUTER AT: 17 APR 2016 00:30:49 (32 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$AND;EPISODEID=1125596 FOR INFORMATION ON EMERGENCY RESPONSE, PLEASE CONSULT THE GDACS VIRTUAL OSOCC: HTTP://VOSOCC.UNOCHA.ORG ============================================================================================================ LIST OF 10 HEIGHEST WAVE LOCATIONS ARRIVALTIME (UTC) LOCATION COUNTRY MAX EST. HEIGHT (M) 17 APR 2016 00:18 CANOA ECUADOR 1.7 17 APR 2016 00:18 SAN VICENTE ECUADOR 1.7 17 APR 2016 00:11 EL ROSARIO ECUADOR 1.6 17 APR 2016 00:04 BAHFA DE CAR ECUADOR 1.6 16 APR 2016 23:58 CRUCITA ECUADOR 1.5 16 APR 2016 23:58 CHARAPOT= ECUADOR 1.5 17 APR 2016 00:04 LEONIDAS PLA ECUADOR 1.5 17 APR 2016 00:04 SAN CLEMENTE ECUADOR 1.5 16 APR 2016 23:58 ROCAFUERTE ECUADOR 1.3 17 APR 2016 00:18 PUERTO CABUY ECUADOR 1.2 16 APR 2016 23:58 CORONO ECUADOR 1.0 THE FULL LIST OF LOCATIONS CAN BE VISUALIZED IN THE GDACS PAGE OF THE EVENT: HTTP://WWW.GDACS.ORG/REPORT.ASPX?EVENTTYPE=EQ$AND;EPISODEID=1125596 ============================================================================================================ POPULATION DENSITY NEAR EPICENTER (PEOPLE/KM2). RADIUS (KM) POPULATION DENSITY (PEOPLE/KM2) 200 5589050 712 175 4285707 546 150 1489849 190 125 1165463 148 100 682079 87 75 480397 61 50 93067 12 20 13241 2 10 3891 0 5 962 0 2 122 0 THE POPULATION IN THE 50 KM AREA OF THIS EARTHQUAKE IS 12 PEOPLE/KM2. ============================================================================================================ THE EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED AT 16 APR 2016 18:39:02 LOCAL TIME. 16 APR 2016 18:39:02 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. ECUADOR HAS A GDP PER CAPITA OF 1419 PPP$ (PARITY PURCHASING POWER DOLLAR, ABOUT 1 EURO) AND IS THEREFORE PART OF THE LOW LEVEL INCOME COUNTRIES. THEREFORE, THE EARTHQUAKE HAPPENED IN AN AREA OF LOW RESILIENCE. BASED ON THE COMBINATION OF 9 INDICATORS, ECHO ATTRIBUTES ECUADOR A LOW VULNERABILITY. ============================================================================================================ SECONDARY EFFECTS ----------------- PROBABILITY OF SECONDARY EFFECTS: - LANDSLIDES: THE MAXIMUM SLOPE IN THE AREA OF THE EARTHQUAKE IS 22% AND THE MAXIMUM ALTITUDE IS 760 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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