WOMP40 EJRC 200938 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 GREECE * ****************************************** SUMMARY ON 20 NOV 2015 09:33:15 UTC (ABOUT 20 NOV 2015 10:55:11 LOCAL TIME) AN EARTHQUAKE OF MAGNITUDE 4.7 OCCURRED IN THE HIGHLY POPULATED REGION OF IONIAN ISLANDS IN GREECE. Ï¿½YIOS PÏ¿½TROS THE NEAREST POPULATED PLACES ARE: PÏ¿½TRAI (116.6 KM). THE CLOSEST CIVILIAN AIRPORT IS: AKTION (41.4 KM). EARTHQUAKE EVENT CHARACTERISTICS - SOURCE: NOAIG - MAGNITUDE: 4.7 M - DEPTH: 5 KM - LOCATION (LAT/LONG): 38.6231 | 20.4871 - COUNTRY: GREECE - PROVINCE: IONIAN ISLANDS(REGION) - REGION: GREECE - UTC/GMT (GREENWICH TIME): 20 NOV 2015 09:33:15 UTC - ESTIMATED LOCAL SOLAR TIME: 20 NOV 2015 10:55:11 ============================================================================================================ POTENTIALLY AFFECTED CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: - NUCLEAR PLANTS: N/A - HYDRODAMS: POURNARI (78 KM), KASTRAKI (77 KM), STRATOS (72.6 KM) - AIRPORTS: AKTION (41.4 KM), ARGOSTOLION (55.4 KM) - PORTS: LEVKAS (29.3 KM), MEGANISI (25.1 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: FRI, 20 NOV 2015 09:33:15 UTC EUROPEAN TIME OF THE EVENT: 20 NOV 2015 10:33:15 EAST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 20 NOV 2015 03:33:15 WEST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 20 NOV 2015 00:33:15 EAST ASIA TIME OF THE EVENT: 20 NOV 2015 17:33:15 THIS EMAIL REPORT WAS AUTOMATICALLY CREATED BY A COMPUTER AT: 20 NOV 2015 09:38:21 (5 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$AND;EPISODEID=1107589 FOR INFORMATION ON EMERGENCY RESPONSE, PLEASE CONSULT THE GDACS VIRTUAL OSOCC: HTTP://VOSOCC.UNOCHA.ORG ============================================================================================================ POPULATION DENSITY NEAR EPICENTER (PEOPLE/KM2). RADIUS (KM) POPULATION DENSITY (PEOPLE/KM2) 200 2195553 280 175 1852269 236 150 1413756 180 125 1082662 138 100 488735 62 75 258268 33 50 83925 11 20 9136 1 10 2294 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 THE POPULATION IN THE 50 KM AREA OF THIS EARTHQUAKE IS 11 PEOPLE/KM2. ============================================================================================================ THE EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED AT 20 NOV 2015 10:55:11 LOCAL TIME. 20 NOV 2015 10:55:11 RESILIENCE AND VULNERABILITY ---------------------------- RESILIENCE IS THE CAPACITY OF THE POPULATION TO COPE WITH A HAZARD. SINCE MUCH OF INVESTMENTS IN EARTHQUAKE PREPAREDNESS AND AVAILABLE FUNDS FOR QUICK RESPONSE IS RELATED TO HOUSEHOLD INCOME, THE GDP PER CAPITA CAN BE USED AS A ROUGH INDICATOR OF RESILIENCE. GREECE HAS A GDP PER CAPITA OF 12652 PPP$ (PARITY PURCHASING POWER DOLLAR, ABOUT 1 EURO) AND IS THEREFORE PART OF THE MEDIUM LEVEL INCOME COUNTRIES. THEREFORE, THE EARTHQUAKE HAPPENED IN AN AREA OF MEDIUM RESILIENCE. BASED ON THE COMBINATION OF 9 INDICATORS, ECHO ATTRIBUTES GREECE A LOW VULNERABILITY. ============================================================================================================ SECONDARY EFFECTS ----------------- PROBABILITY OF SECONDARY EFFECTS: - LANDSLIDES: THE MAXIMUM SLOPE IN THE AREA OF THE EARTHQUAKE IS 54% AND THE MAXIMUM ALTITUDE IS 1804 M. SINCE THIS IS A MEDIUM SLOPE, THE RISK OF EARTHQUAKE INDUCED LANDSLIDES IS MEDIUM. 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: THE SPECIFIED HYDRODAM INSTALLATIONS ARE NEAR 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