WECA40 EJRC 140739 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 EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI ALERT IN GUATEMALA * ********************************************************** SUMMARY ON 14 JUN 2017 07:29:05 UTC (ABOUT 14 JUN 2017 01:21:00 LOCAL TIME) AN EARTHQUAKE OF MAGNITUDE 7 OCCURRED IN THE VERY HIGHLY POPULATED REGION OF SAN MARCOS IN GUATEMALA. CHANCHICUB THE NEAREST POPULATED PLACES ARE: SAN PABLO (2.4 KM). THE CLOSEST CIVILIAN AIRPORT IS: TAPACHULA (31.2 KM). ACCORDING TO THE GDACS TSUNAMI SCENARIO CALCULATION THIS EVENT COULD POTENTIALLY GENERATE A TSUNAMI. THE MAXIMUM ESTIMATED HEIGHT IS 0.0 M, OCCURRING AT LA CONCEPION (MEXICO) AT 1/1/2006 12:44:00 AM UTC. EARTHQUAKE EVENT CHARACTERISTICS - SOURCE: PTWC - MAGNITUDE: 7 M - DEPTH: 97.9 KM - LOCATION (LAT/LONG): 14.947 | -92.017 - COUNTRY: GUATEMALA - PROVINCE: SAN MARCOS(DEPARTMENT) - REGION: NEAR COAST OF CHIAPAS, MEXICO - UTC/GMT (GREENWICH TIME): 14 JUN 2017 07:29:05 UTC - ESTIMATED LOCAL SOLAR TIME: 14 JUN 2017 01:21:00 ALERT SUMMARY ------------- EARTHQUAKE :ORANGE TSUNAMI :GREEN ============================================================================================================ POTENTIALLY AFFECTED CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: - NUCLEAR PLANTS: N/A - HYDRODAMS: N/A - AIRPORTS: TAPACHULA (31.2 KM), TAPACHULA INTERNATIONAL (41.6 KM), QUEZALTENANGO (56.1 KM), RETALHULEU (58.6 KM), HUEHUETENANGO (73 KM) - PORTS: PUERTO MADERO (50 KM), CHAMPERICO (74.5 KM) BASED ON AN AUTOMATED IMPACT MODEL, THIS EARTHQUAKE, WHICH OCCURRED IN A REGION WITH MEDIUM VULNERABILITY TO NATURAL DISASTERS, HAS POTENTIALLY A LOW HUMANITARIAN IMPACT. EVENT DATE UNIV. TIME: WED, 14 JUN 2017 07:29:05 UTC EUROPEAN TIME OF THE EVENT: 14 JUN 2017 09:29:05 EAST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 14 JUN 2017 01:29:05 WEST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 13 JUN 2017 22:29:05 EAST ASIA TIME OF THE EVENT: 14 JUN 2017 14:29:05 THIS EMAIL REPORT WAS AUTOMATICALLY CREATED BY A COMPUTER AT: 14 JUN 2017 07:39:08 (10 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$AND;EPISODEID=1170758 FOR INFORMATION ON EMERGENCY RESPONSE, PLEASE CONSULT THE GDACS VIRTUAL OSOCC: HTTP://VOSOCC.UNOCHA.ORG ============================================================================================================ LIST OF 10 HEIGHEST WAVE LOCATIONS ARRIVALTIME (UTC) LOCATION COUNTRY MAX EST. HEIGHT (M) 14 JUN 2017 08:13 LA CONCEPION MEXICO 0.0 14 JUN 2017 08:22 BARRA DE SAN MEXICO 0.0 14 JUN 2017 08:19 AQUILES SERD MEXICO 0.0 14 JUN 2017 08:19 BUENOS AIRES MEXICO 0.0 14 JUN 2017 08:22 MAZATßN MEXICO 0.0 14 JUN 2017 08:38 LIMONES GUATEMALA 0.0 14 JUN 2017 08:38 BENITO JUßRE MEXICO 0.0 14 JUN 2017 08:25 BABILONIA MEXICO 0.0 14 JUN 2017 08:26 PUERTO DE SA MEXICO 0.0 14 JUN 2017 08:44 PASITO DE LA MEXICO 0.0 14 JUN 2017 08:29 LA BLANCA GUATEMALA 0.0 THE FULL LIST OF LOCATIONS CAN BE VISUALIZED IN THE GDACS PAGE OF THE EVENT: HTTP://WWW.GDACS.ORG/REPORT.ASPX?EVENTTYPE=EQ$AND;EPISODEID=1170758 ============================================================================================================ POPULATION DENSITY NEAR EPICENTER (PEOPLE/KM2). RADIUS (KM) POPULATION DENSITY (PEOPLE/KM2) 200 13283587 1691 175 11911794 1517 150 8030388 1022 125 6631488 844 100 5397550 687 75 3927663 500 50 2037128 259 20 374233 48 10 117658 15 5 20705 3 2 4474 1 THE POPULATION IN THE 50 KM AREA OF THIS EARTHQUAKE IS 259 PEOPLE/KM2. ============================================================================================================ THE EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED AT 14 JUN 2017 01:21:00 LOCAL TIME. 14 JUN 2017 01:21:00 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. GUATEMALA HAS A GDP PER CAPITA OF 1545 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 GUATEMALA A MEDIUM 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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