WESA40 EJRC 101037 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 NEAR COAST OF CENTRAL CHILE * *************************************************************************** SUMMARY ON 10 APR 2018 10:19:34 UTC (ABOUT 10 APR 2018 05:33:20 LOCAL TIME) AN EARTHQUAKE OF MAGNITUDE 6.2 OCCURRED IN THE HIGHLY POPULATED REGION OF COQUIMBO IN NEAR COAST OF CENTRAL CHILE. EL AJIAL THE NEAREST POPULATED PLACES ARE: MAITENCILLO (7.7 KM). THE CLOSEST CIVILIAN AIRPORT IS: SANTA ROSA DE TABALI (37.4 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 HUENTELAUQUTN (CHILE) AT 1/1/2006 12:14:00 AM UTC. EARTHQUAKE EVENT CHARACTERISTICS - SOURCE: NEIC - MAGNITUDE: 6.2 M - DEPTH: 76.08 KM - LOCATION (LAT/LONG): -30.9862 | -71.5566 - COUNTRY: NEAR COAST OF CENTRAL CHILE - PROVINCE: COQUIMBO(REGION) - REGION: NEAR COAST OF CENTRAL CHILE - UTC/GMT (GREENWICH TIME): 10 APR 2018 10:19:34 UTC - ESTIMATED LOCAL SOLAR TIME: 10 APR 2018 05:33:20 ALERT SUMMARY ------------- EARTHQUAKE :GREEN TSUNAMI :GREEN ============================================================================================================ POTENTIALLY AFFECTED CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: - NUCLEAR PLANTS: N/A - HYDRODAMS: N/A - AIRPORTS: SANTA ROSA DE TABALI (37.4 KM), OVALLE (73.4 KM), AUCO (78.1 KM) - PORTS: N/A 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: TUE, 10 APR 2018 10:19:34 UTC EUROPEAN TIME OF THE EVENT: 10 APR 2018 12:19:34 EAST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 10 APR 2018 04:19:34 WEST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 10 APR 2018 01:19:34 EAST ASIA TIME OF THE EVENT: 10 APR 2018 17:19:34 THIS EMAIL REPORT WAS AUTOMATICALLY CREATED BY A COMPUTER AT: 10 APR 2018 10:37:22 (17 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$AND;EPISODEID=1206218 FOR INFORMATION ON EMERGENCY RESPONSE, PLEASE CONSULT THE GDACS VIRTUAL OSOCC: HTTP://VOSOCC.UNOCHA.ORG ============================================================================================================ LIST OF 10 HEIGHEST WAVE LOCATIONS ARRIVALTIME (UTC) LOCATION COUNTRY MAX EST. HEIGHT (M) 10 APR 2018 10:33 HUENTELAUQUT CHILE 0.0 10 APR 2018 10:30 MAITENCILLO CHILE 0.0 10 APR 2018 10:34 CHIGUALOCO CHILE 0.0 10 APR 2018 10:31 QUILLAICILLO CHILE 0.0 10 APR 2018 10:35 ANGOSTURA CHILE 0.0 10 APR 2018 10:35 PICHIDANGUI CHILE 0.0 10 APR 2018 10:35 TOTORALILLO CHILE 0.0 10 APR 2018 10:36 QUILIMARF CHILE 0.0 10 APR 2018 10:43 CONCHALF CHILE 0.0 10 APR 2018 10:42 LOS VILOS CHILE 0.0 10 APR 2018 10:19 0.0 THE FULL LIST OF LOCATIONS CAN BE VISUALIZED IN THE GDACS PAGE OF THE EVENT: HTTP://WWW.GDACS.ORG/REPORT.ASPX?EVENTTYPE=EQ$AND;EPISODEID=1206218 ============================================================================================================ POPULATION DENSITY NEAR EPICENTER (PEOPLE/KM2). RADIUS (KM) POPULATION DENSITY (PEOPLE/KM2) 200 878445 112 175 798497 102 150 730921 93 125 649602 83 100 235830 30 75 171959 22 50 43484 6 20 6010 1 10 2124 0 5 433 0 2 38 0 THE POPULATION IN THE 50 KM AREA OF THIS EARTHQUAKE IS 6 PEOPLE/KM2. ============================================================================================================ THE EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED AT 10 APR 2018 05:33:20 LOCAL TIME. 10 APR 2018 05:33:20 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. NEAR COAST OF CENTRAL CHILE 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 NEAR COAST OF CENTRAL CHILE 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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