WOFE40 EJRC 250651 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 25 MAY 2019 06:20:46 UTC (ABOUT 25 MAY 2019 15:41:56 LOCAL TIME) AN EARTHQUAKE OF MAGNITUDE 5 OCCURRED IN THE VERY HIGHLY POPULATED REGION OF KANTO IN JAPAN. MOBARA THE NEAREST POPULATED PLACES ARE: ICHINOMIYA (8.6 KM). THE CLOSEST CIVILIAN AIRPORT IS: KISARAZU (36.2 KM). EARTHQUAKE EVENT CHARACTERISTICS - SOURCE: NEIC - MAGNITUDE: 5 M - DEPTH: 30.38 KM - LOCATION (LAT/LONG): 35.3173 | 140.2952 - COUNTRY: JAPAN - PROVINCE: KANTO(REGION) - REGION: NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN - UTC/GMT (GREENWICH TIME): 25 MAY 2019 06:20:46 UTC - ESTIMATED LOCAL SOLAR TIME: 25 MAY 2019 15:41:56 ============================================================================================================ POTENTIALLY AFFECTED CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: - NUCLEAR PLANTS: N/A - HYDRODAMS: N/A - AIRPORTS: KISARAZU (36.2 KM), SHIMOSHIZU (39.4 KM), TOKYO NARITA INTERNATIONAL (50.3 KM), TOKYO HANEDA INTERNATIONAL (53.5 KM), TATEYAMA (56 KM), SHIMOFUSA (59.2 KM), RYUGASAKI SOUTH (61.7 KM), YOKOHAMA (62.4 KM), RYUGASAKI (66.3 KM), ATSUGI (78.3 KM), CHOFU (80 KM), (80.4 KM), KATSNER AAF (84.7 KM), CHIBA-KEN (88.7 KM), TACHIKAWA (91.9 KM), HYAKURI (96.5 KM), YOKOTA AFB (98.3 KM), IRUMA (99.2 KM) - PORTS: KATSUURA KO (20.2 KM), GOI (29.6 KM), KISARAZU (34.9 KM), CHIBA (35.5 KM), ANEGASAKI (36.5 KM), KATUNAN KO (48.6 KM), KAWASAKI (54.1 KM), TATEYAMA (54.1 KM), KURIHAMA (55.8 KM), YOKOSUKA (58.1 KM), OGASAWARA (60.6 KM), NEGHISI (60.8 KM), YOKOHAMA (61.6 KM), TOKYO (65.5 KM), CHOSHI (67.1 KM), KASHIMA (74.3 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: SAT, 25 MAY 2019 06:20:46 UTC EUROPEAN TIME OF THE EVENT: 25 MAY 2019 08:20:46 EAST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 25 MAY 2019 00:20:46 WEST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 24 MAY 2019 21:20:46 EAST ASIA TIME OF THE EVENT: 25 MAY 2019 13:20:46 THIS EMAIL REPORT WAS AUTOMATICALLY CREATED BY A COMPUTER AT: 25 MAY 2019 06:51:25 (30 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$AND;EPISODEID=1261585 FOR INFORMATION ON EMERGENCY RESPONSE, PLEASE CONSULT THE GDACS VIRTUAL OSOCC: HTTP://VOSOCC.UNOCHA.ORG ============================================================================================================ POPULATION DENSITY NEAR EPICENTER (PEOPLE/KM2). RADIUS (KM) POPULATION DENSITY (PEOPLE/KM2) 200 45827301 5835 175 44213349 5629 150 41465380 5280 125 37767094 4809 100 33772544 4300 75 20367970 2593 50 3057139 389 20 255132 32 10 66133 8 5 11187 1 2 987 0 THE POPULATION IN THE 50 KM AREA OF THIS EARTHQUAKE IS 389 PEOPLE/KM2. ============================================================================================================ THE EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED AT 25 MAY 2019 15:41:56 LOCAL TIME. 25 MAY 2019 15:41:56 RESILIENCE AND VULNERABILITY ---------------------------- RESILIENCE IS THE CAPACITY OF THE POPULATION TO COPE WITH A HAZARD. SINCE MUCH OF INVESTMENTS IN EARTHQUAKE PREPAREDNESS AND AVAILABLE FUNDS FOR QUICK RESPONSE IS RELATED TO HOUSEHOLD INCOME, THE GDP PER CAPITA CAN BE USED AS A ROUGH INDICATOR OF RESILIENCE. JAPAN HAS A GDP PER CAPITA OF 42318 PPP$ (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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