WOCA40 EJRC 070637 EARTHQUAKE 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 ALERT IN COSTA RICA * ********************************************** SUMMARY ON 07 AUG 2016 06:09:50 UTC (ABOUT 07 AUG 2016 00:34:30 LOCAL TIME) AN EARTHQUAKE OF MAGNITUDE 4.5 OCCURRED IN THE VERY HIGHLY POPULATED REGION OF HEREDIA IN COSTA RICA. TIGRA (FATIMA DE SARAPIQUL) THE NEAREST POPULATED PLACES ARE: TIGRA (FATIMA DE SARAPIQUL) (12.2 KM). THE CLOSEST CIVILIAN AIRPORT IS: SAN PEDRO (21.2 KM). EARTHQUAKE EVENT CHARACTERISTICS - SOURCE: NEIC - MAGNITUDE: 4.5 M - DEPTH: 17.66 KM - LOCATION (LAT/LONG): 10.6074 | -83.8316 - COUNTRY: COSTA RICA - PROVINCE: HEREDIA(PROVINCE) - REGION: COSTA RICA - UTC/GMT (GREENWICH TIME): 07 AUG 2016 06:09:50 UTC - ESTIMATED LOCAL SOLAR TIME: 07 AUG 2016 00:34:30 ============================================================================================================ POTENTIALLY AFFECTED CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: - NUCLEAR PLANTS: N/A - HYDRODAMS: N/A - AIRPORTS: SAN PEDRO (21.2 KM), RIO FRIO (30.8 KM), BARRA DEL COLORADO (31.8 KM), TORTUQUERO (35 KM), SANTA CLARA DE GUAPILES (37.6 KM), GUAPILES (43.3 KM), SANTA MARIA DE GUACIMO (44.5 KM), EL CARMEN (59.8 KM), SAN ALBERTO (64.7 KM), TOBIAS BOLANOS INTERNATIONAL (79.4 KM), JUAN SANTAMARIA INTERNATIONAL (79.5 KM) - PORTS: SAN JUAN DEL NORTE (38 KM), PUNTA GORDA (99.1 KM) BASED ON AN AUTOMATED IMPACT MODEL, THIS EARTHQUAKE, WHICH OCCURRED IN A REGION WITH LOW VULNERABILITY TO NATURAL DISASTERS, HAS POTENTIALLY A UNKNOWN HUMANITARIAN IMPACT. EVENT DATE UNIV. TIME: SUN, 07 AUG 2016 06:09:50 UTC EUROPEAN TIME OF THE EVENT: 07 AUG 2016 08:09:50 EAST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 07 AUG 2016 00:09:50 WEST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 06 AUG 2016 21:09:50 EAST ASIA TIME OF THE EVENT: 07 AUG 2016 13:09:50 THIS EMAIL REPORT WAS AUTOMATICALLY CREATED BY A COMPUTER AT: 07 AUG 2016 06:37:36 (27 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$AND;EPISODEID=1135985 FOR INFORMATION ON EMERGENCY RESPONSE, PLEASE CONSULT THE GDACS VIRTUAL OSOCC: HTTP://VOSOCC.UNOCHA.ORG ============================================================================================================ POPULATION DENSITY NEAR EPICENTER (PEOPLE/KM2). RADIUS (KM) POPULATION DENSITY (PEOPLE/KM2) 200 4920584 627 175 4513099 575 150 4263589 543 125 3833759 488 100 3425573 436 75 863923 110 50 239600 31 20 16293 2 10 2146 0 5 210 0 2 0 0 THE POPULATION IN THE 50 KM AREA OF THIS EARTHQUAKE IS 31 PEOPLE/KM2. ============================================================================================================ THE EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED AT 07 AUG 2016 00:34:30 LOCAL TIME. 07 AUG 2016 00:34:30 RESILIENCE AND VULNERABILITY ---------------------------- RESILIENCE IS THE CAPACITY OF THE POPULATION TO COPE WITH A HAZARD. SINCE MUCH OF INVESTMENTS IN EARTHQUAKE PREPAREDNESS AND AVAILABLE FUNDS FOR QUICK RESPONSE IS RELATED TO HOUSEHOLD INCOME, THE GDP PER CAPITA CAN BE USED AS A ROUGH INDICATOR OF RESILIENCE. COSTA RICA HAS A GDP PER CAPITA OF 3994 PPP$ (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 COSTA RICA A LOW VULNERABILITY. ============================================================================================================ SECONDARY EFFECTS ----------------- PROBABILITY OF SECONDARY EFFECTS: - LANDSLIDES: THE MAXIMUM SLOPE IN THE AREA OF THE EARTHQUAKE IS N/A% AND THE MAXIMUM ALTITUDE IS N/A 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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