WEFE40 EJRC 151634 EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI 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 TSUNAMI ALERT IN JAPAN * *************************************** SUMMARY ON 15 APR 2016 16:25:07 UTC (ABOUT 16 APR 2016 01:08:07 LOCAL TIME) AN EARTHQUAKE OF MAGNITUDE 7.1 OCCURRED IN THE VERY HIGHLY POPULATED REGION OF KYUSHU IN JAPAN. MIYAZAKI THE NEAREST POPULATED PLACES ARE: KUMAMOTO (5.9 KM). THE CLOSEST CIVILIAN AIRPORT IS: SAGA (61.3 KM). ACCORDING TO THE GDACS TSUNAMI SCENARIO CALCULATION THIS EVENT COULD POTENTIALLY GENERATE A TSUNAMI. THE MAXIMUM ESTIMATED HEIGHT IS 1.0 M, OCCURRING AT KURANOMOTO (JAPAN) AT 1/1/2006 12:19:00 AM UTC. EARTHQUAKE EVENT CHARACTERISTICS - SOURCE: GEOFON - MAGNITUDE: 7.1 M - DEPTH: 10 KM - LOCATION (LAT/LONG): 32.77 | 130.75 - COUNTRY: JAPAN - PROVINCE: KYUSHU(REGION) - REGION: KYUSHU, JAPAN - UTC/GMT (GREENWICH TIME): 15 APR 2016 16:25:07 UTC - ESTIMATED LOCAL SOLAR TIME: 16 APR 2016 01:08:07 ============================================================================================================ POTENTIALLY AFFECTED CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: - NUCLEAR PLANTS: N/A - HYDRODAMS: FUKASAKO (10.2 KM), MIDORIKAWA (19.7 KM) - AIRPORTS: SAGA (61.3 KM), AMAKUSA (65.2 KM), KUMAMOTO (11.5 KM) - PORTS: MISUMI (33 KM), SHIMABARA (36.7 KM), YATSUSHIRO (33.8 KM) BASED ON AN AUTOMATED IMPACT MODEL, THIS EARTHQUAKE, WHICH OCCURRED IN A REGION WITH LOW VULNERABILITY TO NATURAL DISASTERS, HAS POTENTIALLY A MEDIUM HUMANITARIAN IMPACT. EVENT DATE UNIV. TIME: FRI, 15 APR 2016 16:25:07 UTC EUROPEAN TIME OF THE EVENT: 15 APR 2016 18:25:07 EAST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 15 APR 2016 10:25:07 WEST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 15 APR 2016 07:25:07 EAST ASIA TIME OF THE EVENT: 15 APR 2016 23:25:07 THIS EMAIL REPORT WAS AUTOMATICALLY CREATED BY A COMPUTER AT: 15 APR 2016 16:34:28 (9 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$AND;EPISODEID=1125375 FOR INFORMATION ON EMERGENCY RESPONSE, PLEASE CONSULT THE GDACS VIRTUAL OSOCC: HTTP://VOSOCC.UNOCHA.ORG ============================================================================================================ LIST OF 10 HEIGHEST WAVE LOCATIONS ARRIVALTIME (UTC) LOCATION COUNTRY MAX EST. HEIGHT (M) 15 APR 2016 16:44 KURANOMOTO JAPAN 1.0 15 APR 2016 16:55 NAGA-SHIMA JAPAN 0.9 15 APR 2016 16:40 TAJIRI JAPAN 0.9 15 APR 2016 16:42 SHIOMI JAPAN 0.9 15 APR 2016 16:42 WAKIMOTO JAPAN 0.9 15 APR 2016 16:40 AKUNE JAPAN 0.9 15 APR 2016 16:38 USHINOHAMA JAPAN 0.9 15 APR 2016 16:36 UKO JAPAN 0.7 15 APR 2016 16:57 NODAGO JAPAN 0.6 15 APR 2016 16:57 SAKITSU JAPAN 0.5 15 APR 2016 16:57 ONIKI JAPAN 0.5 THE FULL LIST OF LOCATIONS CAN BE VISUALIZED IN THE GDACS PAGE OF THE EVENT: HTTP://WWW.GDACS.ORG/REPORT.ASPX?EVENTTYPE=EQ$AND;EPISODEID=1125375 ============================================================================================================ POPULATION DENSITY NEAR EPICENTER (PEOPLE/KM2). RADIUS (KM) POPULATION DENSITY (PEOPLE/KM2) 200 14812967 1886 175 14230526 1812 150 13152812 1675 125 11443656 1457 100 7818100 995 75 3683429 469 50 1840330 234 20 966102 123 10 638805 81 5 206395 26 2 11264 1 THE POPULATION IN THE 50 KM AREA OF THIS EARTHQUAKE IS 234 PEOPLE/KM2. ============================================================================================================ THE EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED AT 16 APR 2016 01:08:07 LOCAL TIME. 16 APR 2016 01:08:07 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 38% AND THE MAXIMUM ALTITUDE IS 1700 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. 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