WOME40 EJRC 200607 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. ****************************************** * WHITE EARTHQUAKE ALERT IN GREECE * ****************************************** SUMMARY ON 20 DEC 2016 06:03:45 UTC (ABOUT 20 DEC 2016 07:51:28 LOCAL TIME) AN EARTHQUAKE OF MAGNITUDE 5.2 OCCURRED IN THE HIGHLY POPULATED REGION OF AEGEAN ISLANDS IN GREECE. MANDRÁKION THE NEAREST POPULATED PLACES ARE: MANDRÁKION (20.5 KM). THE CLOSEST CIVILIAN AIRPORT IS: KOS (33.4 KM). EARTHQUAKE EVENT CHARACTERISTICS - SOURCE: NOAIG - MAGNITUDE: 5.2 M - DEPTH: 110.7 KM - LOCATION (LAT/LONG): 36.5239 | 26.9321 - COUNTRY: GREECE - PROVINCE: AEGEAN ISLANDS(REGION) - REGION: DODECANESE ISLANDS, GREECE - UTC/GMT (GREENWICH TIME): 20 DEC 2016 06:03:45 UTC - ESTIMATED LOCAL SOLAR TIME: 20 DEC 2016 07:51:28 ============================================================================================================ POTENTIALLY AFFECTED CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: - NUCLEAR PLANTS: N/A - HYDRODAMS: N/A - AIRPORTS: KOS (33.4 KM), ASTIPALAIA (50.2 KM), LEROS (74.3 KM) - PORTS: YALI ISLAND (23.3 KM), NISIROS ISLAND (26.3 KM), SIRNA ISLAND (28.7 KM), MEGALO KHORIO (43.2 KM), KALIMNOS ISLAND (47.9 KM), ORMOS MALTEZANA (48.7 KM), KOS (53 KM), DODECANESE ISLAND (53.9 KM), LEVITHA ISLAND (65.4 KM), KHALKI ISLAND (65.8 KM), LAKKION (67.8 KM), BODRUM (72 KM), ALIMNIA ISLAND (75.8 KM), KINAROS ISLAND (75.8 KM), SARIA ISLAND (79.8 KM), LIPSOI ISLAND (87 KM), LIPSOI (87.1 KM), OLIMBOS (88.3 KM), PATMOS (94.7 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: TUE, 20 DEC 2016 06:03:45 UTC EUROPEAN TIME OF THE EVENT: 20 DEC 2016 07:03:45 EAST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 20 DEC 2016 00:03:45 WEST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 19 DEC 2016 21:03:45 EAST ASIA TIME OF THE EVENT: 20 DEC 2016 14:03:45 THIS EMAIL REPORT WAS AUTOMATICALLY CREATED BY A COMPUTER AT: 20 DEC 2016 06:07:32 (3 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$AND;EPISODEID=1151309 FOR INFORMATION ON EMERGENCY RESPONSE, PLEASE CONSULT THE GDACS VIRTUAL OSOCC: HTTP://VOSOCC.UNOCHA.ORG ============================================================================================================ POPULATION DENSITY NEAR EPICENTER (PEOPLE/KM2). RADIUS (KM) POPULATION DENSITY (PEOPLE/KM2) 200 2160905 275 175 1369726 174 150 821367 105 125 350426 45 100 190182 24 75 84727 11 50 30715 4 20 29 0 10 8 0 5 5 0 2 0 0 THE POPULATION IN THE 50 KM AREA OF THIS EARTHQUAKE IS 4 PEOPLE/KM2. ============================================================================================================ THE EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED AT 20 DEC 2016 07:51:28 LOCAL TIME. 20 DEC 2016 07:51:28 RESILIENCE AND VULNERABILITY ---------------------------- RESILIENCE IS THE CAPACITY OF THE POPULATION TO COPE WITH A HAZARD. SINCE MUCH OF INVESTMENTS IN EARTHQUAKE PREPAREDNESS AND AVAILABLE FUNDS FOR QUICK RESPONSE IS RELATED TO HOUSEHOLD INCOME, THE GDP PER CAPITA CAN BE USED AS A ROUGH INDICATOR OF RESILIENCE. GREECE HAS A GDP PER CAPITA OF 12652 PPP$ (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 GREECE 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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