WOAW40 EJRC 070229 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 TURKEY * ****************************************** SUMMARY ON 07 FEB 2017 02:24:03 UTC (ABOUT 07 FEB 2017 04:08:31 LOCAL TIME) AN EARTHQUAKE OF MAGNITUDE 5.3 OCCURRED IN THE HIGHLY POPULATED REGION OF CANAKKALE IN TURKEY. KÖSEDERE THE NEAREST POPULATED PLACES ARE: BADEMLI (2.5 KM). THE CLOSEST CIVILIAN AIRPORT IS: POLIKHNITOS (46.7 KM). EARTHQUAKE EVENT CHARACTERISTICS - SOURCE: EMSC - MAGNITUDE: 5.3 M - DEPTH: 10 KM - LOCATION (LAT/LONG): 39.5 | 26.12 - COUNTRY: TURKEY - PROVINCE: CANAKKALE(PROVINCE) - REGION: TURKEY - UTC/GMT (GREENWICH TIME): 07 FEB 2017 02:24:03 UTC - ESTIMATED LOCAL SOLAR TIME: 07 FEB 2017 04:08:31 ============================================================================================================ POTENTIALLY AFFECTED CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: - NUCLEAR PLANTS: N/A - HYDRODAMS: N/A - AIRPORTS: POLIKHNITOS (46.7 KM), MYTILENE (64.1 KM), CANAKKALE (75.6 KM), EDREMIT KORFEZ (77.2 KM), IMROZ (81.1 KM) - PORTS: MITHIMNA (17.1 KM), BOZCAADA (37.4 KM), SIGRI (39.8 KM), KOLPIS KALLONIS (46.4 KM), TAVSAN ADASI (48.6 KM), AYVALIK (53 KM), MITILENE (59.8 KM), CAPE HELLES (60.7 KM), PLOMARION (61.8 KM), KUMKALE (62.4 KM), AKCAY (70.8 KM), KEFALO (72.8 KM), CAN (74.4 KM), CANAKKALE (75.9 KM), ECEABAT (81 KM), DIKILI (81 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: TUE, 07 FEB 2017 02:24:03 UTC EUROPEAN TIME OF THE EVENT: 07 FEB 2017 03:24:03 EAST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 06 FEB 2017 20:24:03 WEST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 06 FEB 2017 17:24:03 EAST ASIA TIME OF THE EVENT: 07 FEB 2017 10:24:03 THIS EMAIL REPORT WAS AUTOMATICALLY CREATED BY A COMPUTER AT: 07 FEB 2017 02:29:59 (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$AND;EPISODEID=1156534 FOR INFORMATION ON EMERGENCY RESPONSE, PLEASE CONSULT THE GDACS VIRTUAL OSOCC: HTTP://VOSOCC.UNOCHA.ORG ============================================================================================================ POPULATION DENSITY NEAR EPICENTER (PEOPLE/KM2). RADIUS (KM) POPULATION DENSITY (PEOPLE/KM2) 200 6203259 790 175 4978870 634 150 1577154 201 125 973196 124 100 588321 75 75 294136 37 50 114119 15 20 15024 2 10 7615 1 5 3399 0 2 478 0 THE POPULATION IN THE 50 KM AREA OF THIS EARTHQUAKE IS 15 PEOPLE/KM2. ============================================================================================================ THE EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED AT 07 FEB 2017 04:08:31 LOCAL TIME. 07 FEB 2017 04:08:31 RESILIENCE AND VULNERABILITY ---------------------------- RESILIENCE IS THE CAPACITY OF THE POPULATION TO COPE WITH A HAZARD. SINCE MUCH OF INVESTMENTS IN EARTHQUAKE PREPAREDNESS AND AVAILABLE FUNDS FOR QUICK RESPONSE IS RELATED TO HOUSEHOLD INCOME, THE GDP PER CAPITA CAN BE USED AS A ROUGH INDICATOR OF RESILIENCE. TURKEY HAS A GDP PER CAPITA OF UNDEFINED PPP$ (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 TURKEY A NO 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. 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