WEIO40 EJRC 012316 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. **************************************************************************** * GREEN EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI ALERT IN SOUTHERN SUMATERA, INDONESIA * **************************************************************************** SUMMARY ON 01 JUN 2016 22:56:00 UTC (ABOUT 02 JUN 2016 05:38:17 LOCAL TIME) AN EARTHQUAKE OF MAGNITUDE 6.5 OCCURRED IN THE HIGHLY POPULATED REGION OF SUMATERA BARAT IN SOUTHERN SUMATERA, INDONESIA. NO NEAREST POPULATED PLACES FOUND . THE CLOSEST CIVILIAN AIRPORT IS: MUKO MUKO (76.8 KM). ACCORDING TO THE GDACS TSUNAMI SCENARIO CALCULATION THIS EVENT COULD POTENTIALLY GENERATE A TSUNAMI. THE MAXIMUM ESTIMATED HEIGHT IS 0.0 M, OCCURRING AT KAJOESABATANG (INDONESIA) AT 1/1/2006 12:32:00 AM UTC. EARTHQUAKE EVENT CHARACTERISTICS - SOURCE: NEIC - MAGNITUDE: 6.5 M - DEPTH: 50.77 KM - LOCATION (LAT/LONG): -2.207 | 100.5739 - COUNTRY: SOUTHERN SUMATERA, INDONESIA - PROVINCE: - REGION: SOUTHERN SUMATERA, INDONESIA - UTC/GMT (GREENWICH TIME): 01 JUN 2016 22:56:00 UTC - ESTIMATED LOCAL SOLAR TIME: 02 JUN 2016 05:38:17 ALERT SUMMARY ------------- EARTHQUAKE :GREEN TSUNAMI :GREEN ============================================================================================================ POTENTIALLY AFFECTED CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: - NUCLEAR PLANTS: N/A - HYDRODAMS: N/A - AIRPORTS: MUKO MUKO (76.8 KM), SIPORA ROKOT (87.9 KM) - PORTS: SOUTH PAGAI ISLAND (76.1 KM), NORTH PAGAI ISLAND (65.7 KM) BASED ON AN AUTOMATED IMPACT MODEL, THIS EARTHQUAKE, WHICH OCCURRED IN A REGION WITH NO VULNERABILITY TO NATURAL DISASTERS, HAS POTENTIALLY A UNKNOWN HUMANITARIAN IMPACT. EVENT DATE UNIV. TIME: WED, 01 JUN 2016 22:56:00 UTC EUROPEAN TIME OF THE EVENT: 02 JUN 2016 00:56:00 EAST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 01 JUN 2016 16:56:00 WEST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 01 JUN 2016 13:56:00 EAST ASIA TIME OF THE EVENT: 02 JUN 2016 05:56:00 THIS EMAIL REPORT WAS AUTOMATICALLY CREATED BY A COMPUTER AT: 01 JUN 2016 23:16:13 (20 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$AND;EPISODEID=1129930 FOR INFORMATION ON EMERGENCY RESPONSE, PLEASE CONSULT THE GDACS VIRTUAL OSOCC: HTTP://VOSOCC.UNOCHA.ORG ============================================================================================================ LIST OF 10 HEIGHEST WAVE LOCATIONS ARRIVALTIME (UTC) LOCATION COUNTRY MAX EST. HEIGHT (M) 01 JUN 2016 23:28 KAJOESABATAN INDONESIA 0.0 01 JUN 2016 23:15 PARITPANDJAN INDONESIA 0.0 01 JUN 2016 23:11 AIRHADJI INDONESIA 0.0 01 JUN 2016 23:16 KOTATINGGI INDONESIA 0.0 01 JUN 2016 23:12 PASIRGANTING INDONESIA 0.0 01 JUN 2016 23:15 PATDARAI INDONESIA 0.0 01 JUN 2016 23:14 GATI INDONESIA 0.0 01 JUN 2016 23:21 PASARTALUK INDONESIA 0.0 01 JUN 2016 23:17 INDRAPURA INDONESIA 0.0 01 JUN 2016 23:12 SIKABUR INDONESIA 0.0 01 JUN 2016 23:18 LIMAUMANIS INDONESIA 0.0 THE FULL LIST OF LOCATIONS CAN BE VISUALIZED IN THE GDACS PAGE OF THE EVENT: HTTP://WWW.GDACS.ORG/REPORT.ASPX?EVENTTYPE=EQ$AND;EPISODEID=1129930 ============================================================================================================ POPULATION DENSITY NEAR EPICENTER (PEOPLE/KM2). RADIUS (KM) POPULATION DENSITY (PEOPLE/KM2) 200 3510862.0 447 175 2557630.0 326 150 1904406.0 242 125 930500.0 118 100 326119.0 42 75 139300.0 18 50 2218.0 0 20 0.0 0 10 0.0 0 5 0.0 0 2 0.0 0 THE POPULATION IN THE 50 KM AREA OF THIS EARTHQUAKE IS 0 PEOPLE/KM2. ============================================================================================================ THE EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED AT 02 JUN 2016 05:38:17 LOCAL TIME. 02 JUN 2016 05:38:17 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. SOUTHERN SUMATERA, INDONESIA 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 SOUTHERN SUMATERA, INDONESIA A NO VULNERABILITY. ============================================================================================================ SECONDARY EFFECTS ----------------- PROBABILITY OF SECONDARY EFFECTS: - LANDSLIDES: THE MAXIMUM SLOPE IN THE AREA OF THE EARTHQUAKE IS 36% AND THE MAXIMUM ALTITUDE IS 2446.0 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: THERE ARE NO HYDRODAM FACILITIES NEARBY THE EPICENTER. 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