WOFE40 EJRC 021636 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 SICHUAN, CHINA * ************************************************** SUMMARY ON 02 FEB 2020 16:05:42 UTC (ABOUT 02 FEB 2020 23:03:57 LOCAL TIME) AN EARTHQUAKE OF MAGNITUDE 5.2 OCCURRED IN THE VERY HIGHLY POPULATED REGION OF SICHUAN IN SICHUAN, CHINA. HUAI-CHOU THE NEAREST POPULATED PLACES ARE: HUAI-CHOU (1.3 KM). THE CLOSEST CIVILIAN AIRPORT IS: CHENDUKUANGHAN (31.4 KM). EARTHQUAKE EVENT CHARACTERISTICS - SOURCE: NEIC - MAGNITUDE: 5.2 M - DEPTH: 10.79 KM - LOCATION (LAT/LONG): 30.7492 | 104.5632 - COUNTRY: SICHUAN, CHINA - PROVINCE: SICHUAN(PROVINCE) - REGION: SICHUAN, CHINA - UTC/GMT (GREENWICH TIME): 02 FEB 2020 16:05:42 UTC - ESTIMATED LOCAL SOLAR TIME: 02 FEB 2020 23:03:57 ============================================================================================================ POTENTIALLY AFFECTED CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: - NUCLEAR PLANTS: N/A - HYDRODAMS: N/A - AIRPORTS: CHENDUKUANGHAN (31.4 KM), CHENGDUFENG HUANG SHAN (45.1 KM), JIANYANG (46.7 KM), CHENGDU TAIPINGSI AF P (54.9 KM), CHENGDUWEN CHIANG (59 KM), CHENGDUSHUANG LIU (61.8 KM), MIANYANG (76.4 KM), CHENGDU XINJIN (78 KM), CHENGDU PENGSHAN (86.9 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 LOW HUMANITARIAN IMPACT. EVENT DATE UNIV. TIME: SUN, 02 FEB 2020 16:05:42 UTC EUROPEAN TIME OF THE EVENT: 02 FEB 2020 17:05:42 EAST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 02 FEB 2020 10:05:42 WEST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 02 FEB 2020 07:05:42 EAST ASIA TIME OF THE EVENT: 03 FEB 2020 00:05:42 THIS EMAIL REPORT WAS AUTOMATICALLY CREATED BY A COMPUTER AT: 02 FEB 2020 16:36:43 (31 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$AND;EPISODEID=1294156 FOR INFORMATION ON EMERGENCY RESPONSE, PLEASE CONSULT THE GDACS VIRTUAL OSOCC: HTTP://VOSOCC.UNOCHA.ORG ============================================================================================================ POPULATION DENSITY NEAR EPICENTER (PEOPLE/KM2). RADIUS (KM) POPULATION DENSITY (PEOPLE/KM2) 200 57434314 7313 175 49809066 6342 150 40681563 5180 125 33586637 4276 100 26796093 3412 75 18536177 2360 50 9002645 1146 20 823072 105 10 233674 30 5 83819 11 2 10472 1 THE POPULATION IN THE 50 KM AREA OF THIS EARTHQUAKE IS 1146 PEOPLE/KM2. ============================================================================================================ THE EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED AT 02 FEB 2020 23:03:57 LOCAL TIME. 02 FEB 2020 23:03:57 RESILIENCE AND VULNERABILITY ---------------------------- RESILIENCE IS THE CAPACITY OF THE POPULATION TO COPE WITH A HAZARD. SINCE MUCH OF INVESTMENTS IN EARTHQUAKE PREPAREDNESS AND AVAILABLE FUNDS FOR QUICK RESPONSE IS RELATED TO HOUSEHOLD INCOME, THE GDP PER CAPITA CAN BE USED AS A ROUGH INDICATOR OF RESILIENCE. SICHUAN, CHINA HAS A GDP PER CAPITA OF UNDEFINED PPP$ (PARITY PURCHASING POWER DOLLAR, ABOUT 1 EURO) AND IS THEREFORE PART OF THE UNDEFINED LEVEL INCOME COUNTRIES. THEREFORE, THE EARTHQUAKE HAPPENED IN AN AREA OF UNDEFINED RESILIENCE. BASED ON THE COMBINATION OF 9 INDICATORS, ECHO ATTRIBUTES SICHUAN, 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. 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