WEFE40 EJRC 210522 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. ****************************************************** * ORANGE EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI ALERT IN JAPAN * ****************************************************** SUMMARY ON 21 OCT 2016 05:07:00 UTC (ABOUT 21 OCT 2016 14:02:35 LOCAL TIME) AN EARTHQUAKE OF MAGNITUDE 6.6 OCCURRED IN THE VERY HIGHLY POPULATED REGION OF CHUGOKU IN JAPAN. AKAWASE THE NEAREST POPULATED PLACES ARE: YAMADA (2.3 KM). THE CLOSEST CIVILIAN AIRPORT IS: TOTTORI (28 KM). ACCORDING TO THE GDACS TSUNAMI SCENARIO CALCULATION THIS EVENT COULD POTENTIALLY GENERATE A TSUNAMI. THE MAXIMUM ESTIMATED HEIGHT IS 0.5 M, OCCURRING AT KAJIYA (JAPAN) AT 1/1/2006 12:04:00 AM UTC. EARTHQUAKE EVENT CHARACTERISTICS - SOURCE: PTWC - MAGNITUDE: 6.6 M - DEPTH: 11 KM - LOCATION (LAT/LONG): 35.4 | 133.9 - COUNTRY: JAPAN - PROVINCE: CHUGOKU(REGION) - REGION: WESTERN HONSHU, JAPAN - UTC/GMT (GREENWICH TIME): 21 OCT 2016 05:07:00 UTC - ESTIMATED LOCAL SOLAR TIME: 21 OCT 2016 14:02:35 ALERT SUMMARY ------------- EARTHQUAKE :ORANGE TSUNAMI :GREEN ============================================================================================================ POTENTIALLY AFFECTED CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: - NUCLEAR PLANTS: N/A - HYDRODAMS: N/A - AIRPORTS: TOTTORI (28 KM), NIHONBARA (37.5 KM), MIHO (61.1 KM), OKAYAMA (71.5 KM), TAJIMA (81.5 KM), KOHNAN (90 KM) - PORTS: SAKAIMINATO (61 KM), KASUMI (72.4 KM), MATSUE (77 KM), OKAYAMA (87.2 KM), AIOI (87.3 KM), MIZUSHIMA (99.4 KM) BASED ON AN AUTOMATED IMPACT MODEL, THIS EARTHQUAKE, WHICH OCCURRED IN A REGION WITH LOW VULNERABILITY TO NATURAL DISASTERS, HAS POTENTIALLY A LOW HUMANITARIAN IMPACT. EVENT DATE UNIV. TIME: FRI, 21 OCT 2016 05:07:00 UTC EUROPEAN TIME OF THE EVENT: 21 OCT 2016 07:07:00 EAST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 20 OCT 2016 23:07:00 WEST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 20 OCT 2016 20:07:00 EAST ASIA TIME OF THE EVENT: 21 OCT 2016 12:07:00 THIS EMAIL REPORT WAS AUTOMATICALLY CREATED BY A COMPUTER AT: 21 OCT 2016 05:22:53 (15 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$AND;EPISODEID=1143516 FOR INFORMATION ON EMERGENCY RESPONSE, PLEASE CONSULT THE GDACS VIRTUAL OSOCC: HTTP://VOSOCC.UNOCHA.ORG ============================================================================================================ LIST OF 10 HEIGHEST WAVE LOCATIONS ARRIVALTIME (UTC) LOCATION COUNTRY MAX EST. HEIGHT (M) 21 OCT 2016 05:11 KAJIYA JAPAN 0.5 21 OCT 2016 05:11 ARAIDANI JAPAN 0.5 21 OCT 2016 05:11 MINOMI JAPAN 0.5 21 OCT 2016 05:11 HIROO JAPAN 0.5 21 OCT 2016 05:11 YOKOOCHO JAPAN 0.5 21 OCT 2016 05:11 KANNABE JAPAN 0.5 21 OCT 2016 05:11 DAIMON JAPAN 0.5 21 OCT 2016 05:11 FUKUYAMA JAPAN 0.5 21 OCT 2016 05:13 OSHINADE JAPAN 0.4 21 OCT 2016 05:12 ERA JAPAN 0.4 21 OCT 2016 05:16 OEHAMA JAPAN 0.4 THE FULL LIST OF LOCATIONS CAN BE VISUALIZED IN THE GDACS PAGE OF THE EVENT: HTTP://WWW.GDACS.ORG/REPORT.ASPX?EVENTTYPE=EQ$AND;EPISODEID=1143516 ============================================================================================================ POPULATION DENSITY NEAR EPICENTER (PEOPLE/KM2). RADIUS (KM) POPULATION DENSITY (PEOPLE/KM2) 200 19117239 2434 175 10636139 1354 150 7475569 952 125 5201888 662 100 2915977 371 75 1015236 129 50 546810 70 20 99643 13 10 39233 5 5 5302 1 2 1879 0 THE POPULATION IN THE 50 KM AREA OF THIS EARTHQUAKE IS 70 PEOPLE/KM2. ============================================================================================================ THE EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED AT 21 OCT 2016 14:02:35 LOCAL TIME. 21 OCT 2016 14:02:35 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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