WOEE40 EJRC 301835 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 BULGARIA * ******************************************** SUMMARY ON 30 DEC 2019 18:01:41 UTC (ABOUT 30 DEC 2019 19:35:52 LOCAL TIME) AN EARTHQUAKE OF MAGNITUDE 4.5 OCCURRED IN THE VERY HIGHLY POPULATED REGION OF SOFIYA IN BULGARIA. SAMOKOV THE NEAREST POPULATED PLACES ARE: DOSPEI MACHLA (9.3 KM). THE CLOSEST CIVILIAN AIRPORT IS: GARA KOSTENETS BANYA (25.6 KM). EARTHQUAKE EVENT CHARACTERISTICS - SOURCE: NEIC - MAGNITUDE: 4.5 M - DEPTH: 10 KM - LOCATION (LAT/LONG): 42.1919 | 23.5482 - COUNTRY: BULGARIA - PROVINCE: SOFIYA(PROVINCE) - REGION: BULGARIA - UTC/GMT (GREENWICH TIME): 30 DEC 2019 18:01:41 UTC - ESTIMATED LOCAL SOLAR TIME: 30 DEC 2019 19:35:52 ============================================================================================================ POTENTIALLY AFFECTED CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: - NUCLEAR PLANTS: N/A - HYDRODAMS: N/A - AIRPORTS: GARA KOSTENETS BANYA (25.6 KM), STANKE DIMITROV (28.4 KM), CHERNOVO (30.7 KM), IKHTIMAN SOUTHEAST (33.5 KM), STANKE DIMITROV HWY STRIP (41.1 KM), KOCHERINOVO (42.3 KM), MUSACHEVO (52.9 KM), DOLNI RAKOVETS (54.9 KM), LYAKHOVO (56.7 KM), SOFIA / VRAZHDEBNA (57.1 KM), (59.2 KM), DOLNO LEVSKI (62.5 KM), (68.8 KM), (68.9 KM), KUMARITSA (72.6 KM), (72.8 KM), OVCHEPOLTSI (72.9 KM), (74.3 KM), SLAKOVTSI (77.4 KM), TSALAPITA (81.5 KM), PLEVEN (81.6 KM), PERUSHTITSA (82.2 KM), TARGOVISHTE (82.4 KM), TSALAPITSA HIGHWAY STRIP (84.3 KM), SLIVNITSA (84.8 KM), PETRICH (87.1 KM), VOYSIL (90.1 KM), GRAF IGNATIEVO (95.1 KM), STARO ZHELEZARE (95.3 KM), GERANOVITSA (95.3 KM), GRAF IGNATIEVO SOUTH (97 KM) - PORTS: N/A 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: MON, 30 DEC 2019 18:01:41 UTC EUROPEAN TIME OF THE EVENT: 30 DEC 2019 19:01:41 EAST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 30 DEC 2019 12:01:41 WEST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 30 DEC 2019 09:01:41 EAST ASIA TIME OF THE EVENT: 31 DEC 2019 02:01:41 THIS EMAIL REPORT WAS AUTOMATICALLY CREATED BY A COMPUTER AT: 30 DEC 2019 18:35:08 (33 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$AND;EPISODEID=1288103 FOR INFORMATION ON EMERGENCY RESPONSE, PLEASE CONSULT THE GDACS VIRTUAL OSOCC: HTTP://VOSOCC.UNOCHA.ORG ============================================================================================================ POPULATION DENSITY NEAR EPICENTER (PEOPLE/KM2). RADIUS (KM) POPULATION DENSITY (PEOPLE/KM2) 200 9472278 1206 175 6802722 866 150 4696643 598 125 3760443 479 100 2845318 362 75 2164623 276 50 369497 47 20 34384 4 10 1716 0 5 5 0 2 5 0 THE POPULATION IN THE 50 KM AREA OF THIS EARTHQUAKE IS 47 PEOPLE/KM2. ============================================================================================================ THE EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED AT 30 DEC 2019 19:35:52 LOCAL TIME. 30 DEC 2019 19:35:52 RESILIENCE AND VULNERABILITY ---------------------------- RESILIENCE IS THE CAPACITY OF THE POPULATION TO COPE WITH A HAZARD. SINCE MUCH OF INVESTMENTS IN EARTHQUAKE PREPAREDNESS AND AVAILABLE FUNDS FOR QUICK RESPONSE IS RELATED TO HOUSEHOLD INCOME, THE GDP PER CAPITA CAN BE USED AS A ROUGH INDICATOR OF RESILIENCE. BULGARIA HAS A GDP PER CAPITA OF 1414 PPP$ (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 BULGARIA 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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