WOAW40 EJRC 092300 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 TURKEY * ****************************************** SUMMARY ON 09 AUG 2017 22:56:20 UTC (ABOUT 10 AUG 2017 00:47:22 LOCAL TIME) AN EARTHQUAKE OF MAGNITUDE 4.1 OCCURRED IN THE VERY HIGHLY POPULATED REGION OF MUGLA IN TURKEY. BOZALAN THE NEAREST POPULATED PLACES ARE: KARACAHISAR (4.7 KM). THE CLOSEST CIVILIAN AIRPORT IS: BODRUM IMSIK (7.5 KM). EARTHQUAKE EVENT CHARACTERISTICS - SOURCE: NOAIG - MAGNITUDE: 4.1 M - DEPTH: 10 KM - LOCATION (LAT/LONG): 37.0912 | 27.7602 - COUNTRY: TURKEY - PROVINCE: MUGLA(PROVINCE) - REGION: TURKEY - UTC/GMT (GREENWICH TIME): 09 AUG 2017 22:56:20 UTC - ESTIMATED LOCAL SOLAR TIME: 10 AUG 2017 00:47:22 ============================================================================================================ POTENTIALLY AFFECTED CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: - NUCLEAR PLANTS: N/A - HYDRODAMS: N/A - AIRPORTS: BODRUM IMSIK (7.5 KM), MILAS BODRUM (16.3 KM), KOS (68.8 KM), CILDIR (78.2 KM), DIAGORAS (84.8 KM), MARITSA (88.1 KM) - PORTS: GULLUK (20 KM), BODRUM (29.6 KM), KOS (47.5 KM), GOKOVA ISKELESI (51.8 KM), MARMARIS (55.4 KM), SIMI ISLAND (57 KM), AKSAZ (64.7 KM), DODECANESE ISLAND (67.1 KM), KALIMNOS ISLAND (69.6 KM), NISIROS ISLAND (75 KM), YALI ISLAND (75.2 KM), LAKKION (79.8 KM), MEGALO KHORIO (81.8 KM), RHODES (87.7 KM), KUSADASI (93.8 KM), ALIMNIA ISLAND (95.9 KM), KHALKI ISLAND (98.5 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: WED, 09 AUG 2017 22:56:20 UTC EUROPEAN TIME OF THE EVENT: 10 AUG 2017 00:56:20 EAST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 09 AUG 2017 16:56:20 WEST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 09 AUG 2017 13:56:20 EAST ASIA TIME OF THE EVENT: 10 AUG 2017 05:56:20 THIS EMAIL REPORT WAS AUTOMATICALLY CREATED BY A COMPUTER AT: 09 AUG 2017 23:00:50 (4 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$AND;EPISODEID=1176879 FOR INFORMATION ON EMERGENCY RESPONSE, PLEASE CONSULT THE GDACS VIRTUAL OSOCC: HTTP://VOSOCC.UNOCHA.ORG ============================================================================================================ POPULATION DENSITY NEAR EPICENTER (PEOPLE/KM2). RADIUS (KM) POPULATION DENSITY (PEOPLE/KM2) 200 7891535 1005 175 7143150 909 150 2884341 367 125 2292481 292 100 1583762 202 75 783907 100 50 294401 37 20 65467 8 10 15317 2 5 3879 0 2 68 0 THE POPULATION IN THE 50 KM AREA OF THIS EARTHQUAKE IS 37 PEOPLE/KM2. ============================================================================================================ THE EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED AT 10 AUG 2017 00:47:22 LOCAL TIME. 10 AUG 2017 00:47:22 RESILIENCE AND VULNERABILITY ---------------------------- RESILIENCE IS THE CAPACITY OF THE POPULATION TO COPE WITH A HAZARD. SINCE MUCH OF INVESTMENTS IN EARTHQUAKE PREPAREDNESS AND AVAILABLE FUNDS FOR QUICK RESPONSE IS RELATED TO HOUSEHOLD INCOME, THE GDP PER CAPITA CAN BE USED AS A ROUGH INDICATOR OF RESILIENCE. TURKEY HAS A GDP PER CAPITA OF 2965 PPP$ (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 TURKEY 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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