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Report on Earthquake Alerts

Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:50:35 GMT

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Green Earthquake Alert Japan: (22:06UTC) Magnitude 4.5 in unpopulated region (0 people within 50km).

Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:50:33 GMT

Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System


Global Disaster Alert System - Earthquake Report

Green Earthquake Alert Japan

Summary

On 11/17/2005 10:06:11 PM UTC an earthquake of magnitude 4.5 has struck the unpopulated region of Southeast Of Honshu, Japan in Japan.

Whether international humanitarian aid is needed must be decided by an expert. However, the following automatically calculated elements can help. This earthquake has potentially a low humanitarian impact and the affected region has low vulnerability to natural disasters.

Humanitarian Impact
Vulnerability

Event Date Univ. Time: Thu, 11/17/2005 22:06 GMT

European Time of the event: Thu, 11/17/2005 23:06 GMT (Brussels, Paris, Rome)

East America Time of the event: Thu, 11/17/2005 17:06 GMT (New York, Washington)

West America Time of the event: Thu, 11/17/2005 14:06 GMT (San Francisco, Los Angeles)

East Asia Time of the event: Fri, 11/18/2005 07:06 JTI (Tokyo)

This email report was automatically created by a computer at: 11/18/2005 9:57:58 PM UTC (23 hours 51 minutes after the event)

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Earthquake Event

Characteristics

Source: European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) M
Magnitude: 4.5 M
Depth: 46 km
Location (Lat/Long): 33.18 | 140.88
Country: Japan
Region: Southeast Of Honshu, Japan
UTC/GMT (Greenwich time): 11/17/2005 10:06:11 PM
Estimated local solar time: 11/18/2005 7:29:42 AM

Population Density near epicenter (people/km²). Image area: 6x4 decimal degrees (approx. 650x450km2).

Earthquake Impact Details

Potentially affected People

Population Data
Radius (km)	Population	Density (people/km²)
1	0	0
2	0	0
5	0	0
10	0	0
20	0	0
50	0	0
100	0	0
200	8110	0

The population in the area of this earthquake if 0 people/km².

The earthquake occurred at 7h local time. At this time a day, more people are at work and therefore more vulnerable to collapsing office buildings. During traffic hours, people can be affected by collapsing bridges and other road infrastructure.

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 42317 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 0% and the maximum altitude is 0 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: The following nuclear installations are near the epicenter: FUKUSHIMA-DAIICHI (471km), FUKUSHIMA-DAINI (460km), HAMAOKA (298km), KASHIWAZAKI KARIWA (515km), TOKAI (366km)
Tsunami: JRC is currently not modelling probability of tsunami generation. Please refer to NOAA's tsunami alert system for information on tsunamis in the Pacific Ocean: http://tsunami.gov/. However, for earthquakes in the ocean and with magnitude larger than 6.5, the propagation of a potential tsunami is modelled below.

The magnitude is too low for tsunami generation.

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Report on Earthquake Alerts

Fri, 18 Nov 2005 21:59:56 GMT

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Green Earthquake Alert Japan: (12:38UTC) Magnitude 4.6 in unpopulated region (0 people within 50km).

Fri, 18 Nov 2005 21:59:53 GMT

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Global Disaster Alert System - Earthquake Report

Green Earthquake Alert Japan

Summary

On 11/17/2005 12:38:04 PM UTC an earthquake of magnitude 4.6 has struck the unpopulated region of Off East Coast Of Honshu, Japan in Japan.

Humanitarian Impact
Vulnerability

Event Date Univ. Time: Thu, 11/17/2005 12:38 GMT

European Time of the event: Thu, 11/17/2005 13:38 GMT (Brussels, Paris, Rome)

East America Time of the event: Thu, 11/17/2005 07:38 GMT (New York, Washington)

West America Time of the event: Thu, 11/17/2005 04:38 GMT (San Francisco, Los Angeles)

East Asia Time of the event: Thu, 11/17/2005 21:38 JTI (Tokyo)

This email report was automatically created by a computer at: 11/18/2005 9:07:19 PM UTC (1 day(s)8 hours 29 minutes after the event)

See the GDACS website for the full report.

Earthquake Event

Characteristics

Source: European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) M
Magnitude: 4.6 M
Depth: 11 km
Location (Lat/Long): 37.91 | 145
Country: Japan
Region: Off East Coast Of Honshu, Japan
UTC/GMT (Greenwich time): 11/17/2005 12:38:04 PM
Estimated local solar time: 11/17/2005 10:18:04 PM

Population Density near epicenter (people/km²). Image area: 6x4 decimal degrees (approx. 650x450km2).

Earthquake Impact Details

Potentially affected People

Population Data
Radius (km)	Population	Density (people/km²)
1	0	0
2	0	0
5	0	0
10	0	0
20	0	0
50	0	0
100	0	0
200	0	0

The population in the area of this earthquake if 0 people/km².

The earthquake occurred at 22h local time. At this time a day, more people are at home and therefore more vulnerable to collapsing residential buildings. During traffic hours, people can be affected by collapsing bridges and other road infrastructure.

Resilience and Vulnerability

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 0% and the maximum altitude is 0 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: The following nuclear installations are near the epicenter: FUKUSHIMA-DAIICHI (353km), FUKUSHIMA-DAINI (356km), HIGASHI DORI (489km), ONAGAWA (311km), TOKAI (421km)
Tsunami: JRC is currently not modelling probability of tsunami generation. Please refer to NOAA's tsunami alert system for information on tsunamis in the Pacific Ocean: http://tsunami.gov/. However, for earthquakes in the ocean and with magnitude larger than 6.5, the propagation of a potential tsunami is modelled below.

The magnitude is too low for tsunami generation.

Follow-up information and expert feedback

Please go to the full report on the website to see feedback for this earthquake event.

Share your feedback

Disclaimer

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