WOFE40 EJRC 130001 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 12 SEP 2016 23:30:40 UTC (ABOUT 13 SEP 2016 08:51:13 LOCAL TIME) AN EARTHQUAKE OF MAGNITUDE 4.6 OCCURRED IN THE VERY HIGHLY POPULATED REGION OF KANTO IN JAPAN. CHIBA THE NEAREST POPULATED PLACES ARE: CHIBA-NYUTAUN (8.5 KM). THE CLOSEST CIVILIAN AIRPORT IS: SHIMOSHIZU (6.4 KM). EARTHQUAKE EVENT CHARACTERISTICS - SOURCE: NEIC - MAGNITUDE: 4.6 M - DEPTH: 60.07 KM - LOCATION (LAT/LONG): 35.7096 | 140.1401 - COUNTRY: JAPAN - PROVINCE: KANTO(REGION) - REGION: NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN - UTC/GMT (GREENWICH TIME): 12 SEP 2016 23:30:40 UTC - ESTIMATED LOCAL SOLAR TIME: 13 SEP 2016 08:51:13 ============================================================================================================ POTENTIALLY AFFECTED CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: - NUCLEAR PLANTS: N/A - HYDRODAMS: N/A - AIRPORTS: SHIMOSHIZU (6.4 KM), SHIMOFUSA (15.3 KM), RYUGASAKI SOUTH (19.9 KM), TOKYO NARITA INTERNATIONAL (23.1 KM), RYUGASAKI (24.4 KM), (36.7 KM), TOKYO HANEDA INTERNATIONAL (36.9 KM), KISARAZU (40.2 KM), CHIBA-KEN (45 KM), YOKOHAMA (53.3 KM), CHOFU (55.7 KM), HYAKURI (57.9 KM), HONDA (63.3 KM), TACHIKAWA (67.1 KM), IRUMA (67.7 KM), ATSUGI (68.7 KM), KATSNER AAF (71 KM), YOKOTA AFB (71.7 KM), ONISHI (82.9 KM), TATEYAMA (85.2 KM), SUZUMENOMIYA (88.5 KM), UTSUNOMIYA (92.6 KM) - PORTS: ANEGASAKI (12 KM), CHIBA (12.5 KM), KATUNAN KO (14.8 KM), GOI (20 KM), OGASAWARA (31.7 KM), TOKYO (34.5 KM), KAWASAKI (39.8 KM), KISARAZU (41 KM), YOKOHAMA (53.6 KM), KASHIMA (54.6 KM), NEGHISI (57.3 KM), CHOSHI (62.4 KM), YOKOSUKA (64.4 KM), KATSUURA KO (65.2 KM), KURIHAMA (68.7 KM), TATEYAMA (84.1 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: MON, 12 SEP 2016 23:30:40 UTC EUROPEAN TIME OF THE EVENT: 13 SEP 2016 01:30:40 EAST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 12 SEP 2016 17:30:40 WEST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 12 SEP 2016 14:30:40 EAST ASIA TIME OF THE EVENT: 13 SEP 2016 06:30:40 THIS EMAIL REPORT WAS AUTOMATICALLY CREATED BY A COMPUTER AT: 13 SEP 2016 00:01:15 (30 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$AND;EPISODEID=1139778 FOR INFORMATION ON EMERGENCY RESPONSE, PLEASE CONSULT THE GDACS VIRTUAL OSOCC: HTTP://VOSOCC.UNOCHA.ORG ============================================================================================================ POPULATION DENSITY NEAR EPICENTER (PEOPLE/KM2). RADIUS (KM) POPULATION DENSITY (PEOPLE/KM2) 200 45938692 5849 175 44279434 5638 150 42473495 5408 125 40598856 5169 100 37987302 4837 75 28365603 3612 50 13513235 1721 20 2643252 337 10 897775 114 5 239466 30 2 68772 9 THE POPULATION IN THE 50 KM AREA OF THIS EARTHQUAKE IS 1721 PEOPLE/KM2. ============================================================================================================ THE EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED AT 13 SEP 2016 08:51:13 LOCAL TIME. 13 SEP 2016 08:51:13 RESILIENCE AND VULNERABILITY ---------------------------- RESILIENCE IS THE CAPACITY OF THE POPULATION TO COPE WITH A HAZARD. SINCE MUCH OF INVESTMENTS IN EARTHQUAKE PREPAREDNESS AND AVAILABLE FUNDS FOR QUICK RESPONSE IS RELATED TO HOUSEHOLD INCOME, THE GDP PER CAPITA CAN BE USED AS A ROUGH INDICATOR OF RESILIENCE. JAPAN HAS A GDP PER CAPITA OF 42318 PPP$ (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. 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