WOOC40 EJRC 170801 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. **************************************************** * WHITE EARTHQUAKE ALERT IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA * **************************************************** SUMMARY ON 17 SEP 2016 07:09:44 UTC (ABOUT 17 SEP 2016 16:56:17 LOCAL TIME) AN EARTHQUAKE OF MAGNITUDE 4.6 OCCURRED IN THE HIGHLY POPULATED REGION OF MOROBE IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA. TIMINI THE NEAREST POPULATED PLACES ARE: WAMPIT (6.1 KM). THE CLOSEST CIVILIAN AIRPORT IS: NADZAB (16.5 KM). EARTHQUAKE EVENT CHARACTERISTICS - SOURCE: NEIC - MAGNITUDE: 4.6 M - DEPTH: 114.44 KM - LOCATION (LAT/LONG): -6.6921 | 146.6411 - COUNTRY: PAPUA NEW GUINEA - PROVINCE: MOROBE(PROVINCE) - REGION: EASTERN NEW GUINEA REG., P.N.G. - UTC/GMT (GREENWICH TIME): 17 SEP 2016 07:09:44 UTC - ESTIMATED LOCAL SOLAR TIME: 17 SEP 2016 16:56:17 ============================================================================================================ POTENTIALLY AFFECTED CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: - NUCLEAR PLANTS: N/A - HYDRODAMS: N/A - AIRPORTS: NADZAB (16.5 KM), WAGAU (21.2 KM), ZENAG (28.6 KM), BOANA (36.1 KM), TSILI TSILI (36.6 KM), KISENGAN (38.7 KM), LOWAI (42 KM), BAWAN (43.2 KM), GNAROWEIN (45.4 KM), YASURU (51.6 KM), BAINDOUNG (52.4 KM), KASANOMBE (53.8 KM), SINGAUA (54.4 KM), BULOLO (56.2 KM), DINANGAT (60 KM), IMANE (61.7 KM), YALUMET (62 KM), KAIAPIT (63.9 KM), ENGATI (64.8 KM), DERIM (68.3 KM), SAPMANGA (68.4 KM), WAU (71.4 KM), YEGEPA (73 KM), TSEWI (73.7 KM), LANGIMAR (75.8 KM), WANTOAT (75.9 KM), HEIWENI (80.6 KM), OGERANANG (81.7 KM), UMBA (82.7 KM), ASEKI (84.4 KM), WONENARA (84.6 KM), INDAGEN (84.8 KM), KABWUM (86.5 KM), MARAWAKA (87.4 KM), MENYAMYA (89 KM), ARONA (89.2 KM), AIYURA (91.1 KM), NANKINA (97.3 KM) - PORTS: LAE (37.7 KM), SALAMAUA (59.7 KM) BASED ON AN AUTOMATED IMPACT MODEL, THIS EARTHQUAKE, WHICH OCCURRED IN A REGION WITH MEDIUM VULNERABILITY TO NATURAL DISASTERS, HAS POTENTIALLY A UNKNOWN HUMANITARIAN IMPACT. EVENT DATE UNIV. TIME: SAT, 17 SEP 2016 07:09:44 UTC EUROPEAN TIME OF THE EVENT: 17 SEP 2016 09:09:44 EAST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 17 SEP 2016 01:09:44 WEST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 16 SEP 2016 22:09:44 EAST ASIA TIME OF THE EVENT: 17 SEP 2016 14:09:44 THIS EMAIL REPORT WAS AUTOMATICALLY CREATED BY A COMPUTER AT: 17 SEP 2016 08:01:17 (51 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$AND;EPISODEID=1140184 FOR INFORMATION ON EMERGENCY RESPONSE, PLEASE CONSULT THE GDACS VIRTUAL OSOCC: HTTP://VOSOCC.UNOCHA.ORG ============================================================================================================ POPULATION DENSITY NEAR EPICENTER (PEOPLE/KM2). RADIUS (KM) POPULATION DENSITY (PEOPLE/KM2) 200 1589646 202 175 1279174 163 150 1071813 136 125 814224 104 100 580104 74 75 390942 50 50 295189 38 20 31317 4 10 4618 1 5 272 0 2 3 0 THE POPULATION IN THE 50 KM AREA OF THIS EARTHQUAKE IS 38 PEOPLE/KM2. ============================================================================================================ THE EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED AT 17 SEP 2016 16:56:17 LOCAL TIME. 17 SEP 2016 16:56:17 RESILIENCE AND VULNERABILITY ---------------------------- RESILIENCE IS THE CAPACITY OF THE POPULATION TO COPE WITH A HAZARD. SINCE MUCH OF INVESTMENTS IN EARTHQUAKE PREPAREDNESS AND AVAILABLE FUNDS FOR QUICK RESPONSE IS RELATED TO HOUSEHOLD INCOME, THE GDP PER CAPITA CAN BE USED AS A ROUGH INDICATOR OF RESILIENCE. PAPUA NEW GUINEA HAS A GDP PER CAPITA OF 1008 PPP$ (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 PAPUA NEW GUINEA A MEDIUM 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 WOPN40 EJRC 170801 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 JAPAN * ***************************************** SUMMARY ON 17 SEP 2016 07:35:53 UTC (ABOUT 17 SEP 2016 17:00:00 LOCAL TIME) AN EARTHQUAKE OF MAGNITUDE 4.5 OCCURRED IN THE VERY HIGHLY POPULATED REGION OF KANTO IN JAPAN. INUWAKA THE NEAREST POPULATED PLACES ARE: INUWAKA (18.6 KM). THE CLOSEST CIVILIAN AIRPORT IS: TOKYO NARITA INTERNATIONAL (60.9 KM). EARTHQUAKE EVENT CHARACTERISTICS - SOURCE: NEIC - MAGNITUDE: 4.5 M - DEPTH: 9.36 KM - LOCATION (LAT/LONG): 35.6075 | 141.0312 - COUNTRY: JAPAN - PROVINCE: KANTO(REGION) - REGION: NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN - UTC/GMT (GREENWICH TIME): 17 SEP 2016 07:35:53 UTC - ESTIMATED LOCAL SOLAR TIME: 17 SEP 2016 17:00:00 ============================================================================================================ POTENTIALLY AFFECTED CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: - NUCLEAR PLANTS: N/A - HYDRODAMS: N/A - AIRPORTS: TOKYO NARITA INTERNATIONAL (60.9 KM), RYUGASAKI SOUTH (77.7 KM), RYUGASAKI (79.1 KM), SHIMOSHIZU (79.4 KM), HYAKURI (84.5 KM) - PORTS: CHOSHI (23.2 KM), KASHIMA (44.5 KM), KATSUURA KO (84.9 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: SAT, 17 SEP 2016 07:35:53 UTC EUROPEAN TIME OF THE EVENT: 17 SEP 2016 09:35:53 EAST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 17 SEP 2016 01:35:53 WEST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 16 SEP 2016 22:35:53 EAST ASIA TIME OF THE EVENT: 17 SEP 2016 14:35:53 THIS EMAIL REPORT WAS AUTOMATICALLY CREATED BY A COMPUTER AT: 17 SEP 2016 08:01:53 (26 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$AND;EPISODEID=1140183 FOR INFORMATION ON EMERGENCY RESPONSE, PLEASE CONSULT THE GDACS VIRTUAL OSOCC: HTTP://VOSOCC.UNOCHA.ORG ============================================================================================================ POPULATION DENSITY NEAR EPICENTER (PEOPLE/KM2). RADIUS (KM) POPULATION DENSITY (PEOPLE/KM2) 200 40154278 5113 175 32740702 4169 150 17092352 2176 125 7404255 943 100 2276873 290 75 681759 87 50 206017 26 20 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 THE POPULATION IN THE 50 KM AREA OF THIS EARTHQUAKE IS 26 PEOPLE/KM2. ============================================================================================================ THE EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED AT 17 SEP 2016 17:00:00 LOCAL TIME. 17 SEP 2016 17:00:00 RESILIENCE AND VULNERABILITY ---------------------------- RESILIENCE IS THE CAPACITY OF THE POPULATION TO COPE WITH A HAZARD. SINCE MUCH OF INVESTMENTS IN EARTHQUAKE PREPAREDNESS AND AVAILABLE FUNDS FOR QUICK RESPONSE IS RELATED TO HOUSEHOLD INCOME, THE GDP PER CAPITA CAN BE USED AS A ROUGH INDICATOR OF RESILIENCE. JAPAN HAS A GDP PER CAPITA OF 42318 PPP$ (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 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