WEAE40 EJRC 151715 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. ********************************************************* * GREEN EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI ALERT IN INDONESIA * ********************************************************* SUMMARY ON 15 DEC 2017 16:47:56 UTC (ABOUT 16 DEC 2017 00:00:01 LOCAL TIME) AN EARTHQUAKE OF MAGNITUDE 6.5 OCCURRED IN THE VERY HIGHLY POPULATED REGION OF JAWA BARAT IN INDONESIA. KARANGANJAR THE NEAREST POPULATED PLACES ARE: KARANGANJAR (30.8 KM). THE CLOSEST CIVILIAN AIRPORT IS: PANGANDARAN (66.2 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 PAMEUNGPEUK (INDONESIA) AT 1/1/2006 12:11:00 AM UTC. EARTHQUAKE EVENT CHARACTERISTICS - SOURCE: NEIC - MAGNITUDE: 6.5 M - DEPTH: 91.86 KM - LOCATION (LAT/LONG): -7.7343 | 108.023 - COUNTRY: INDONESIA - PROVINCE: - REGION: JAVA, INDONESIA - UTC/GMT (GREENWICH TIME): 15 DEC 2017 16:47:56 UTC - ESTIMATED LOCAL SOLAR TIME: 16 DEC 2017 00:00:01 ALERT SUMMARY ------------- EARTHQUAKE :GREEN TSUNAMI :GREEN ============================================================================================================ POTENTIALLY AFFECTED CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: - NUCLEAR PLANTS: N/A - HYDRODAMS: N/A - AIRPORTS: PANGANDARAN (66.2 KM), CIBEUREUM (80.2 KM) - PORTS: N/A BASED ON AN AUTOMATED IMPACT MODEL, THIS EARTHQUAKE, WHICH OCCURRED IN A REGION WITH MEDIUM VULNERABILITY TO NATURAL DISASTERS, HAS POTENTIALLY A UNKNOWN HUMANITARIAN IMPACT. EVENT DATE UNIV. TIME: FRI, 15 DEC 2017 16:47:56 UTC EUROPEAN TIME OF THE EVENT: 15 DEC 2017 17:47:56 EAST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 15 DEC 2017 10:47:56 WEST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 15 DEC 2017 07:47:56 EAST ASIA TIME OF THE EVENT: 16 DEC 2017 00:47:56 THIS EMAIL REPORT WAS AUTOMATICALLY CREATED BY A COMPUTER AT: 15 DEC 2017 17:15:40 (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$AND;EPISODEID=1191133 FOR INFORMATION ON EMERGENCY RESPONSE, PLEASE CONSULT THE GDACS VIRTUAL OSOCC: HTTP://VOSOCC.UNOCHA.ORG ============================================================================================================ LIST OF 10 HEIGHEST WAVE LOCATIONS ARRIVALTIME (UTC) LOCATION COUNTRY MAX EST. HEIGHT (M) 15 DEC 2017 16:58 PAMEUNGPEUK INDONESIA 0.0 15 DEC 2017 16:57 TJIMARI INDONESIA 0.0 15 DEC 2017 16:59 BANGBAJANG INDONESIA 0.0 15 DEC 2017 16:59 SADATAU INDONESIA 0.0 15 DEC 2017 16:57 TJITALAHAB INDONESIA 0.0 15 DEC 2017 17:08 KARANGANJAR INDONESIA 0.0 15 DEC 2017 16:57 CIDORA INDONESIA 0.0 15 DEC 2017 17:00 CITAMIANG INDONESIA 0.0 15 DEC 2017 17:03 PAMEUTINGAN INDONESIA 0.0 15 DEC 2017 16:58 GARDU INDONESIA 0.0 15 DEC 2017 17:00 SINDANGBARAN INDONESIA 0.0 THE FULL LIST OF LOCATIONS CAN BE VISUALIZED IN THE GDACS PAGE OF THE EVENT: HTTP://WWW.GDACS.ORG/REPORT.ASPX?EVENTTYPE=EQ$AND;EPISODEID=1191133 ============================================================================================================ POPULATION DENSITY NEAR EPICENTER (PEOPLE/KM2). RADIUS (KM) POPULATION DENSITY (PEOPLE/KM2) 200 44532281 5670 175 34904870 4444 150 23862001 3038 125 12849030 1636 100 6890119 877 75 3027360 385 50 1088997 139 20 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 THE POPULATION IN THE 50 KM AREA OF THIS EARTHQUAKE IS 139 PEOPLE/KM2. ============================================================================================================ THE EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED AT 16 DEC 2017 00:00:01 LOCAL TIME. 16 DEC 2017 00:00:01 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. INDONESIA HAS A GDP PER CAPITA OF 962 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 INDONESIA 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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