WOFE40 EJRC 031856 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 CHINA * ***************************************** SUMMARY ON 03 JAN 2019 18:02:50 UTC (ABOUT 04 JAN 2019 02:07:01 LOCAL TIME) AN EARTHQUAKE OF MAGNITUDE 4.8 OCCURRED IN THE VERY HIGHLY POPULATED REGION OF TAIWAN IN CHINA. A-HOU-LIAO THE NEAREST POPULATED PLACES ARE: CH'U-LU (8 KM). THE CLOSEST CIVILIAN AIRPORT IS: FENG NIN (19.5 KM). EARTHQUAKE EVENT CHARACTERISTICS - SOURCE: NEIC - MAGNITUDE: 4.8 M - DEPTH: 10 KM - LOCATION (LAT/LONG): 22.9222 | 121.0489 - COUNTRY: CHINA - PROVINCE: TAIWAN(PROVINCE) - REGION: TAIWAN REGION - UTC/GMT (GREENWICH TIME): 03 JAN 2019 18:02:50 UTC - ESTIMATED LOCAL SOLAR TIME: 04 JAN 2019 02:07:01 ============================================================================================================ POTENTIALLY AFFECTED CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: - NUCLEAR PLANTS: N/A - HYDRODAMS: N/A - AIRPORTS: FENG NIN (19.5 KM), TAITUNG (19.8 KM), GREEN ISLAND (51.1 KM), PINGTUNG NORTH (63.2 KM), PINGTUNG SOUTH (66.3 KM), KUEI JEN (79 KM), HIGHWAY STRIP 331 334 (81.1 KM), KAOHSIUNG INTERNATIONAL (81.4 KM), KANGSHAN (82.2 KM), TSO YING (82.5 KM), TAINAN (86.2 KM), HIGHWAY STRIP 296 298 (89 KM), CHIAYI (90 KM), HIGHWAY STRIP 260 (95.4 KM) - PORTS: TAI TUNG (20.1 KM), TAI NAN (74.4 KM), KAOHSIUNG (88.1 KM), AN PING CHIANG (91.9 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, 03 JAN 2019 18:02:50 UTC EUROPEAN TIME OF THE EVENT: 03 JAN 2019 19:02:50 EAST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 03 JAN 2019 12:02:50 WEST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 03 JAN 2019 09:02:50 EAST ASIA TIME OF THE EVENT: 04 JAN 2019 02:02:50 THIS EMAIL REPORT WAS AUTOMATICALLY CREATED BY A COMPUTER AT: 03 JAN 2019 18:56:18 (53 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$AND;EPISODEID=1243631 FOR INFORMATION ON EMERGENCY RESPONSE, PLEASE CONSULT THE GDACS VIRTUAL OSOCC: HTTP://VOSOCC.UNOCHA.ORG ============================================================================================================ POPULATION DENSITY NEAR EPICENTER (PEOPLE/KM2). RADIUS (KM) POPULATION DENSITY (PEOPLE/KM2) 200 12823206 1633 175 12326623 1569 150 11195689 1425 125 8210961 1045 100 6554239 835 75 1559437 199 50 298551 38 20 84337 11 10 11467 1 5 1673 0 2 0 0 THE POPULATION IN THE 50 KM AREA OF THIS EARTHQUAKE IS 38 PEOPLE/KM2. ============================================================================================================ THE EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED AT 04 JAN 2019 02:07:01 LOCAL TIME. 04 JAN 2019 02:07:01 RESILIENCE AND VULNERABILITY ---------------------------- RESILIENCE IS THE CAPACITY OF THE POPULATION TO COPE WITH A HAZARD. SINCE MUCH OF INVESTMENTS IN EARTHQUAKE PREPAREDNESS AND AVAILABLE FUNDS FOR QUICK RESPONSE IS RELATED TO HOUSEHOLD INCOME, THE GDP PER CAPITA CAN BE USED AS A ROUGH INDICATOR OF RESILIENCE. CHINA HAS A GDP PER CAPITA OF 769 PPP$ (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 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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