WOEE40 EJRC 020945 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 MACEDONIA, THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF * ****************************************************************************** SUMMARY ON 02 JUL 2017 09:39:10 UTC (ABOUT 02 JUL 2017 11:02:22 LOCAL TIME) AN EARTHQUAKE OF MAGNITUDE 4 OCCURRED IN THE VERY HIGHLY POPULATED REGION OF MACEDONIA IN MACEDONIA, THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF. STRUGA THE NEAREST POPULATED PLACES ARE: MESEISTA (5.3 KM). THE CLOSEST CIVILIAN AIRPORT IS: OHRID (5.3 KM). EARTHQUAKE EVENT CHARACTERISTICS - SOURCE: NOAIG - MAGNITUDE: 4 M - DEPTH: 10 KM - LOCATION (LAT/LONG): 41.1976 | 20.8014 - COUNTRY: MACEDONIA, THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF - PROVINCE: MACEDONIA() - REGION: ALBANIA - UTC/GMT (GREENWICH TIME): 02 JUL 2017 09:39:10 UTC - ESTIMATED LOCAL SOLAR TIME: 02 JUL 2017 11:02:22 ============================================================================================================ POTENTIALLY AFFECTED CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: - NUCLEAR PLANTS: N/A - HYDRODAMS: N/A - AIRPORTS: OHRID (5.3 KM), SRPCI (51.2 KM), LOGOVARDI (55.9 KM), PRILEP (56.3 KM), DOLNENI (56.5 KM), KORCE NORTHWEST (61.8 KM), ELBASAN / CERRIK (66.9 KM), FLORINA (68.9 KM), ARISTOTELES (92.7 KM) - 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 UNKNOWN HUMANITARIAN IMPACT. EVENT DATE UNIV. TIME: SUN, 02 JUL 2017 09:39:10 UTC EUROPEAN TIME OF THE EVENT: 02 JUL 2017 11:39:10 EAST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 02 JUL 2017 03:39:10 WEST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 02 JUL 2017 00:39:10 EAST ASIA TIME OF THE EVENT: 02 JUL 2017 16:39:10 THIS EMAIL REPORT WAS AUTOMATICALLY CREATED BY A COMPUTER AT: 02 JUL 2017 09:45:58 (6 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$AND;EPISODEID=1172484 FOR INFORMATION ON EMERGENCY RESPONSE, PLEASE CONSULT THE GDACS VIRTUAL OSOCC: HTTP://VOSOCC.UNOCHA.ORG ============================================================================================================ POPULATION DENSITY NEAR EPICENTER (PEOPLE/KM2). RADIUS (KM) POPULATION DENSITY (PEOPLE/KM2) 200 7767969 989 175 6815828 868 150 5193153 661 125 3595384 458 100 1558850 198 75 867351 110 50 362765 46 20 114673 15 10 62971 8 5 850 0 2 217 0 THE POPULATION IN THE 50 KM AREA OF THIS EARTHQUAKE IS 46 PEOPLE/KM2. ============================================================================================================ THE EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED AT 02 JUL 2017 11:02:22 LOCAL TIME. 02 JUL 2017 11:02:22 RESILIENCE AND VULNERABILITY ---------------------------- RESILIENCE IS THE CAPACITY OF THE POPULATION TO COPE WITH A HAZARD. SINCE MUCH OF INVESTMENTS IN EARTHQUAKE PREPAREDNESS AND AVAILABLE FUNDS FOR QUICK RESPONSE IS RELATED TO HOUSEHOLD INCOME, THE GDP PER CAPITA CAN BE USED AS A ROUGH INDICATOR OF RESILIENCE. MACEDONIA, THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF HAS A GDP PER CAPITA OF 1339 PPP$ (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 MACEDONIA, THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF 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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