WEPQ40 EJRC 061615 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 CHINA * ****************************************************** SUMMARY ON 06 FEB 2018 15:50:41 UTC (ABOUT 06 FEB 2018 23:57:24 LOCAL TIME) AN EARTHQUAKE OF MAGNITUDE 6.4 OCCURRED IN THE VERY HIGHLY POPULATED REGION OF TAIWAN IN CHINA. TA-SHAN THE NEAREST POPULATED PLACES ARE: T'IEH-CHIA-LUNG-SHE (4.2 KM). THE CLOSEST CIVILIAN AIRPORT IS: HUALIEN (16.1 KM). ACCORDING TO THE GDACS TSUNAMI SCENARIO CALCULATION THIS EVENT COULD POTENTIALLY GENERATE A TSUNAMI. THE MAXIMUM ESTIMATED HEIGHT IS 0.5 M, OCCURRING AT KUAN-YIN (TAIWAN) AT 1/1/2006 12:05:00 AM UTC. EARTHQUAKE EVENT CHARACTERISTICS - SOURCE: NEIC - MAGNITUDE: 6.4 M - DEPTH: 9.45 KM - LOCATION (LAT/LONG): 24.1578 | 121.6796 - COUNTRY: CHINA - PROVINCE: TAIWAN(PROVINCE) - REGION: TAIWAN - UTC/GMT (GREENWICH TIME): 06 FEB 2018 15:50:41 UTC - ESTIMATED LOCAL SOLAR TIME: 06 FEB 2018 23:57:24 ALERT SUMMARY ------------- EARTHQUAKE :ORANGE TSUNAMI :GREEN ============================================================================================================ POTENTIALLY AFFECTED CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: - NUCLEAR PLANTS: N/A - HYDRODAMS: N/A - AIRPORTS: HUALIEN (16.1 KM), LISHAN (48.1 KM), (64.1 KM), SUN MOON LAKE (81.8 KM), LUNG TAN (89.2 KM), PA KUEI (93.9 KM) - PORTS: HUALIEN (19.5 KM), SUAO (52.4 KM) BASED ON AN AUTOMATED IMPACT MODEL, THIS EARTHQUAKE, WHICH OCCURRED IN A REGION WITH LOW VULNERABILITY TO NATURAL DISASTERS, HAS POTENTIALLY A MEDIUM HUMANITARIAN IMPACT. EVENT DATE UNIV. TIME: TUE, 06 FEB 2018 15:50:41 UTC EUROPEAN TIME OF THE EVENT: 06 FEB 2018 16:50:41 EAST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 06 FEB 2018 09:50:41 WEST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 06 FEB 2018 06:50:41 EAST ASIA TIME OF THE EVENT: 06 FEB 2018 23:50:41 THIS EMAIL REPORT WAS AUTOMATICALLY CREATED BY A COMPUTER AT: 06 FEB 2018 16:15:25 (24 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$AND;EPISODEID=1197605 FOR INFORMATION ON EMERGENCY RESPONSE, PLEASE CONSULT THE GDACS VIRTUAL OSOCC: HTTP://VOSOCC.UNOCHA.ORG ============================================================================================================ LIST OF 10 HEIGHEST WAVE LOCATIONS ARRIVALTIME (UTC) LOCATION COUNTRY MAX EST. HEIGHT (M) 06 FEB 2018 15:55 KUAN-YIN TAIWAN 0.5 06 FEB 2018 15:50 HSIN-HU-K'OU TAIWAN 0.4 06 FEB 2018 16:22 CH'IEN-TZU-C TAIWAN 0.2 06 FEB 2018 16:59 CHU-NAN TAIWAN 0.1 06 FEB 2018 16:17 CHUNG-FU TAIWAN 0.1 06 FEB 2018 15:50 0.0 THE FULL LIST OF LOCATIONS CAN BE VISUALIZED IN THE GDACS PAGE OF THE EVENT: HTTP://WWW.GDACS.ORG/REPORT.ASPX?EVENTTYPE=EQ$AND;EPISODEID=1197605 ============================================================================================================ POPULATION DENSITY NEAR EPICENTER (PEOPLE/KM2). RADIUS (KM) POPULATION DENSITY (PEOPLE/KM2) 200 19761887 2516 175 17969304 2288 150 17013896 2166 125 15692570 1998 100 7263862 925 75 780972 99 50 259789 33 20 74989 10 10 9771 1 5 3823 0 2 8 0 THE POPULATION IN THE 50 KM AREA OF THIS EARTHQUAKE IS 33 PEOPLE/KM2. ============================================================================================================ THE EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED AT 06 FEB 2018 23:57:24 LOCAL TIME. 06 FEB 2018 23:57:24 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. CHINA HAS A GDP PER CAPITA OF UNDEFINED PPP$ (PARITY PURCHASING POWER DOLLAR, ABOUT 1 EURO) AND IS THEREFORE PART OF THE UNDEFINED LEVEL INCOME COUNTRIES. THEREFORE, THE EARTHQUAKE HAPPENED IN AN AREA OF UNDEFINED RESILIENCE. BASED ON THE COMBINATION OF 9 INDICATORS, ECHO ATTRIBUTES CHINA 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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