WEFE40 EJRC 051849 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 JAPAN * ***************************************************** SUMMARY ON 05 SEP 2018 18:07:58 UTC (ABOUT 06 SEP 2018 03:35:41 LOCAL TIME) AN EARTHQUAKE OF MAGNITUDE 6.6 OCCURRED IN THE VERY HIGHLY POPULATED REGION OF HOKKAIDO IN JAPAN. OIWAKE THE NEAREST POPULATED PLACES ARE: CHITOSE (4.5 KM). THE CLOSEST CIVILIAN AIRPORT IS: SAPPORA / CHITOSE (7.1 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 MOMBETSU (JAPAN) AT 9/5/2018 6:08:59 PM UTC. EARTHQUAKE EVENT CHARACTERISTICS - SOURCE: NEIC - MAGNITUDE: 6.6 M - DEPTH: 31 KM - LOCATION (LAT/LONG): 42.7077 | 141.9323 - COUNTRY: JAPAN - PROVINCE: HOKKAIDO(REGION) - REGION: HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION - UTC/GMT (GREENWICH TIME): 05 SEP 2018 18:07:58 UTC - ESTIMATED LOCAL SOLAR TIME: 06 SEP 2018 03:35:41 ALERT SUMMARY ------------- EARTHQUAKE :GREEN TSUNAMI :GREEN ============================================================================================================ POTENTIALLY AFFECTED CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: - NUCLEAR PLANTS: N/A - HYDRODAMS: N/A - AIRPORTS: SAPPORA / CHITOSE (7.1 KM), SAPPORO-NEW CHITOSE (9.8 KM), SAPPORO (36.6 KM), SADO SHIMA (84.3 KM) - PORTS: TOMAKOMAI (24.7 KM), WAKKANAI (61.8 KM), OTARU (65.1 KM), MURORAN (81.6 KM), HAMAMASU (83.7 KM), YOICHI (84.4 KM), IWANAI (95.1 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, 05 SEP 2018 18:07:58 UTC EUROPEAN TIME OF THE EVENT: 05 SEP 2018 20:07:58 EAST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 05 SEP 2018 12:07:58 WEST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 05 SEP 2018 09:07:58 EAST ASIA TIME OF THE EVENT: 06 SEP 2018 01:07:58 THIS EMAIL REPORT WAS AUTOMATICALLY CREATED BY A COMPUTER AT: 05 SEP 2018 18:49:37 (41 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$AND;EPISODEID=1227156 FOR INFORMATION ON EMERGENCY RESPONSE, PLEASE CONSULT THE GDACS VIRTUAL OSOCC: HTTP://VOSOCC.UNOCHA.ORG ============================================================================================================ LIST OF 10 HEIGHEST WAVE LOCATIONS ARRIVALTIME (UTC) LOCATION COUNTRY MAX EST. HEIGHT (M) 06 SEP 2018 12:15 MOMBETSU JAPAN 0.0 06 SEP 2018 12:16 ATSUGACHO JAPAN 0.0 06 SEP 2018 12:17 KAWAMUKAI JAPAN 0.0 06 SEP 2018 12:22 NIIKAPPU JAPAN 0.0 06 SEP 2018 12:29 TOMAKOMAI JAPAN 0.0 06 SEP 2018 12:28 KERIMABU JAPAN 0.0 06 SEP 2018 12:27 RUMOI JAPAN 0.0 06 SEP 2018 12:25 SHIZUNAI JAPAN 0.0 05 SEP 2018 18:07 0.0 THE FULL LIST OF LOCATIONS CAN BE VISUALIZED IN THE GDACS PAGE OF THE EVENT: HTTP://WWW.GDACS.ORG/REPORT.ASPX?EVENTTYPE=EQ$AND;EPISODEID=1227156 ============================================================================================================ POPULATION DENSITY NEAR EPICENTER (PEOPLE/KM2). RADIUS (KM) POPULATION DENSITY (PEOPLE/KM2) 200 4862170 619 175 4716136 600 150 4581809 583 125 4018414 512 100 3366376 429 75 2993013 381 50 2693622 343 20 240591 31 10 154783 20 5 75546 10 2 7721 1 THE POPULATION IN THE 50 KM AREA OF THIS EARTHQUAKE IS 343 PEOPLE/KM2. ============================================================================================================ THE EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED AT 06 SEP 2018 03:35:41 LOCAL TIME. 06 SEP 2018 03:35:41 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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