WESJ40 EJRC 241118 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. ***************************************************** * GREEN EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI ALERT IN JAPAN * ***************************************************** SUMMARY ON 24 JAN 2018 10:51:20 UTC (ABOUT 24 JAN 2018 20:20:30 LOCAL TIME) AN EARTHQUAKE OF MAGNITUDE 6.2 OCCURRED IN THE HIGHLY POPULATED REGION OF TOHOKU IN JAPAN. NO NEAREST POPULATED PLACES FOUND . THE CLOSEST CIVILIAN AIRPORT IS: MISAWA NAF (90.4 KM). ACCORDING TO THE GDACS TSUNAMI SCENARIO CALCULATION THIS EVENT COULD POTENTIALLY GENERATE A TSUNAMI. THE MAXIMUM ESTIMATED HEIGHT IS 0.0 M, OCCURRING AT YOKAWAME (JAPAN) AT 1/1/2006 12:40:00 AM UTC. EARTHQUAKE EVENT CHARACTERISTICS - SOURCE: NEIC - MAGNITUDE: 6.2 M - DEPTH: 39.75 KM - LOCATION (LAT/LONG): 41.1217 | 142.294 - COUNTRY: JAPAN - PROVINCE: - REGION: HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION - UTC/GMT (GREENWICH TIME): 24 JAN 2018 10:51:20 UTC - ESTIMATED LOCAL SOLAR TIME: 24 JAN 2018 20:20:30 ALERT SUMMARY ------------- EARTHQUAKE :GREEN TSUNAMI :GREEN ============================================================================================================ POTENTIALLY AFFECTED CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: - NUCLEAR PLANTS: N/A - HYDRODAMS: N/A - AIRPORTS: MISAWA NAF (90.4 KM), HACHINOHE (94.1 KM) - PORTS: HACHINOHE (90.6 KM), OMINATO (95.1 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: WED, 24 JAN 2018 10:51:20 UTC EUROPEAN TIME OF THE EVENT: 24 JAN 2018 11:51:20 EAST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 24 JAN 2018 04:51:20 WEST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 24 JAN 2018 01:51:20 EAST ASIA TIME OF THE EVENT: 24 JAN 2018 18:51:20 THIS EMAIL REPORT WAS AUTOMATICALLY CREATED BY A COMPUTER AT: 24 JAN 2018 11:18:51 (27 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$AND;EPISODEID=1195446 FOR INFORMATION ON EMERGENCY RESPONSE, PLEASE CONSULT THE GDACS VIRTUAL OSOCC: HTTP://VOSOCC.UNOCHA.ORG ============================================================================================================ LIST OF 10 HEIGHEST WAVE LOCATIONS ARRIVALTIME (UTC) LOCATION COUNTRY MAX EST. HEIGHT (M) 24 JAN 2018 11:31 YOKAWAME JAPAN 0.0 24 JAN 2018 11:31 OMISAWA JAPAN 0.0 24 JAN 2018 11:31 HITOKAWAME JAPAN 0.0 24 JAN 2018 11:31 FUTAKAWAME JAPAN 0.0 24 JAN 2018 11:31 KAWAGUCHI JAPAN 0.0 24 JAN 2018 11:31 MIKAWAME JAPAN 0.0 24 JAN 2018 11:28 SHIRAHAMA JAPAN 0.0 24 JAN 2018 11:15 KODANOSAWA JAPAN 0.0 24 JAN 2018 11:16 TOMARI JAPAN 0.0 24 JAN 2018 11:31 HARARO JAPAN 0.0 24 JAN 2018 11:28 KINOSHITA JAPAN 0.0 THE FULL LIST OF LOCATIONS CAN BE VISUALIZED IN THE GDACS PAGE OF THE EVENT: HTTP://WWW.GDACS.ORG/REPORT.ASPX?EVENTTYPE=EQ$AND;EPISODEID=1195446 ============================================================================================================ POPULATION DENSITY NEAR EPICENTER (PEOPLE/KM2). RADIUS (KM) POPULATION DENSITY (PEOPLE/KM2) 200 3216631 410 175 2262120 288 150 1296933 165 125 687809 88 100 403399 51 75 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 THE POPULATION IN THE 50 KM AREA OF THIS EARTHQUAKE IS 0 PEOPLE/KM2. ============================================================================================================ THE EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED AT 24 JAN 2018 20:20:30 LOCAL TIME. 24 JAN 2018 20:20:30 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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