WOEE40 EJRC 211427 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. ******************************************** * ORANGE EARTHQUAKE ALERT IN ALBANIA * ******************************************** SUMMARY ON 21 SEP 2019 14:04:24 UTC (ABOUT 21 SEP 2019 15:22:13 LOCAL TIME) AN EARTHQUAKE OF MAGNITUDE 5.6 OCCURRED IN THE VERY HIGHLY POPULATED REGION OF DURRES IN ALBANIA. SHIJAK THE NEAREST POPULATED PLACES ARE: JUBË (5 KM). THE CLOSEST CIVILIAN AIRPORT IS: TIRANE RINAS (22.8 KM). EARTHQUAKE EVENT CHARACTERISTICS - SOURCE: NEIC - MAGNITUDE: 5.6 M - DEPTH: 10 KM - LOCATION (LAT/LONG): 41.3807 | 19.4543 - COUNTRY: ALBANIA - PROVINCE: DURRES(DISTRICT) - REGION: ALBANIA - UTC/GMT (GREENWICH TIME): 21 SEP 2019 14:04:24 UTC - ESTIMATED LOCAL SOLAR TIME: 21 SEP 2019 15:22:13 ============================================================================================================ POTENTIALLY AFFECTED CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: - NUCLEAR PLANTS: N/A - HYDRODAMS: N/A - AIRPORTS: TIRANE RINAS (22.8 KM), (29.4 KM), GRAMSH (58 KM), ELBASAN / CERRIK (59.4 KM), BERAT / STALIN (76.1 KM), SHKODER / SHTOJIRI (78.5 KM), MIFOL (86.3 KM) - PORTS: DURRES (7.2 KM), SHENGJIN (49.6 KM), ULCINJ (65.2 KM), BAR (83.8 KM), PORTO SAN NICOLO (99 KM) BASED ON AN AUTOMATED IMPACT MODEL, THIS EARTHQUAKE, WHICH OCCURRED IN A REGION WITH LOW VULNERABILITY TO NATURAL DISASTERS, HAS POTENTIALLY A LOW HUMANITARIAN IMPACT. EVENT DATE UNIV. TIME: SAT, 21 SEP 2019 14:04:24 UTC EUROPEAN TIME OF THE EVENT: 21 SEP 2019 16:04:24 EAST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 21 SEP 2019 08:04:24 WEST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 21 SEP 2019 05:04:24 EAST ASIA TIME OF THE EVENT: 21 SEP 2019 21:04:24 THIS EMAIL REPORT WAS AUTOMATICALLY CREATED BY A COMPUTER AT: 21 SEP 2019 14:27:51 (23 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$AND;EPISODEID=1271749 FOR INFORMATION ON EMERGENCY RESPONSE, PLEASE CONSULT THE GDACS VIRTUAL OSOCC: HTTP://VOSOCC.UNOCHA.ORG ============================================================================================================ POPULATION DENSITY NEAR EPICENTER (PEOPLE/KM2). RADIUS (KM) POPULATION DENSITY (PEOPLE/KM2) 200 8321922 1060 175 5979473 761 150 4293881 547 125 3220303 410 100 2542604 324 75 1943395 247 50 1296242 165 20 254213 32 10 185220 24 5 19918 3 2 900 0 THE POPULATION IN THE 50 KM AREA OF THIS EARTHQUAKE IS 165 PEOPLE/KM2. ============================================================================================================ THE EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED AT 21 SEP 2019 15:22:13 LOCAL TIME. 21 SEP 2019 15:22:13 RESILIENCE AND VULNERABILITY ---------------------------- RESILIENCE IS THE CAPACITY OF THE POPULATION TO COPE WITH A HAZARD. SINCE MUCH OF INVESTMENTS IN EARTHQUAKE PREPAREDNESS AND AVAILABLE FUNDS FOR QUICK RESPONSE IS RELATED TO HOUSEHOLD INCOME, THE GDP PER CAPITA CAN BE USED AS A ROUGH INDICATOR OF RESILIENCE. ALBANIA HAS A GDP PER CAPITA OF 863 PPP$ (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 ALBANIA 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. JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE, EUROPEAN COMMISSION (JRC-EC) - OFFICE FOR COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS (UN-OCHA) ________________________________________ DISCLAIMER WHILE WE TRY EVERYTHING TO ENSURE ACCURACY, THIS INFORMATION IS PURELY INDICATIVE AND SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR ANY DECISION MAKING WITHOUT ALTERNATE SOURCES OF INFORMATION. THE JRC IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE OR LOSS RESULTING FROM THE USE OF THE INFORMATION PRESENTED ON GDACS WEBSITE. PLEASE REFER TO THE GDACS WEBSITE FOR SUBSCRIBING OR UNSUBSCRIBING FROM THE EARTHQUAKE ALERT EMAIL OR SMS SERVICE. END OF EARTHQUAKE MESSAGE 001