WOPN40 EJRC 170337 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. ***************************************** * GREEN EARTHQUAKE ALERT IN JAPAN * ***************************************** SUMMARY ON 17 MAY 2018 03:12:31 UTC (ABOUT 17 MAY 2018 12:35:57 LOCAL TIME) AN EARTHQUAKE OF MAGNITUDE 5.3 OCCURRED IN THE VERY HIGHLY POPULATED REGION OF KANTO IN JAPAN. CHOSHI THE NEAREST POPULATED PLACES ARE: INUWAKA (7.7 KM). THE CLOSEST CIVILIAN AIRPORT IS: TOKYO NARITA INTERNATIONAL (45.6 KM). EARTHQUAKE EVENT CHARACTERISTICS - SOURCE: NEIC - MAGNITUDE: 5.3 M - DEPTH: 41.06 KM - LOCATION (LAT/LONG): 35.6288 | 140.8621 - COUNTRY: JAPAN - PROVINCE: KANTO(REGION) - REGION: NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN - UTC/GMT (GREENWICH TIME): 17 MAY 2018 03:12:31 UTC - ESTIMATED LOCAL SOLAR TIME: 17 MAY 2018 12:35:57 ============================================================================================================ POTENTIALLY AFFECTED CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: - NUCLEAR PLANTS: N/A - HYDRODAMS: N/A - AIRPORTS: TOKYO NARITA INTERNATIONAL (45.6 KM), RYUGASAKI SOUTH (62.7 KM), SHIMOSHIZU (64 KM), RYUGASAKI (64.4 KM), HYAKURI (73.4 KM), (75.5 KM), SHIMOFUSA (79.3 KM), KISARAZU (90 KM), TOKYO HANEDA INTERNATIONAL (98.3 KM) - PORTS: CHOSHI (12.3 KM), KASHIMA (33.7 KM), CHIBA (68.1 KM), ANEGASAKI (68.9 KM), GOI (69.7 KM), KATSUURA KO (75.1 KM), KATUNAN KO (79.8 KM), KISARAZU (89.5 KM), OGASAWARA (97 KM), HITACHI (98.5 KM), TOKYO (100.3 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: THU, 17 MAY 2018 03:12:31 UTC EUROPEAN TIME OF THE EVENT: 17 MAY 2018 05:12:31 EAST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 16 MAY 2018 21:12:31 WEST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 16 MAY 2018 18:12:31 EAST ASIA TIME OF THE EVENT: 17 MAY 2018 10:12:31 THIS EMAIL REPORT WAS AUTOMATICALLY CREATED BY A COMPUTER AT: 17 MAY 2018 03:38:00 (25 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$AND;EPISODEID=1210911 FOR INFORMATION ON EMERGENCY RESPONSE, PLEASE CONSULT THE GDACS VIRTUAL OSOCC: HTTP://VOSOCC.UNOCHA.ORG ============================================================================================================ POPULATION DENSITY NEAR EPICENTER (PEOPLE/KM2). RADIUS (KM) POPULATION DENSITY (PEOPLE/KM2) 200 44095855 5614 175 41715254 5311 150 39194675 4990 125 29858800 3802 100 11649198 1483 75 3593526 458 50 775623 99 20 103425 13 10 6942 1 5 0 0 2 0 0 THE POPULATION IN THE 50 KM AREA OF THIS EARTHQUAKE IS 99 PEOPLE/KM2. ============================================================================================================ THE EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED AT 17 MAY 2018 12:35:57 LOCAL TIME. 17 MAY 2018 12:35:57 RESILIENCE AND VULNERABILITY ---------------------------- RESILIENCE IS THE CAPACITY OF THE POPULATION TO COPE WITH A HAZARD. SINCE MUCH OF INVESTMENTS IN EARTHQUAKE PREPAREDNESS AND AVAILABLE FUNDS FOR QUICK RESPONSE IS RELATED TO HOUSEHOLD INCOME, THE GDP PER CAPITA CAN BE USED AS A ROUGH INDICATOR OF RESILIENCE. JAPAN HAS A GDP PER CAPITA OF 42318 PPP$ (PARITY PURCHASING POWER DOLLAR, ABOUT 1 EURO) AND IS THEREFORE PART OF THE HIGH LEVEL INCOME COUNTRIES. THEREFORE, THE EARTHQUAKE HAPPENED IN AN AREA OF HIGH RESILIENCE. BASED ON THE COMBINATION OF 9 INDICATORS, ECHO ATTRIBUTES JAPAN 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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