WOFE40 EJRC 312136 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 31 MAY 2020 21:02:10 UTC (ABOUT 01 JUN 2020 06:24:12 LOCAL TIME) AN EARTHQUAKE OF MAGNITUDE 5.3 OCCURRED IN THE VERY HIGHLY POPULATED REGION OF KANTO IN JAPAN. TAKATA THE NEAREST POPULATED PLACES ARE: ASAHI (2.2 KM). THE CLOSEST CIVILIAN AIRPORT IS: HYAKURI (9.3 KM). EARTHQUAKE EVENT CHARACTERISTICS - SOURCE: NEIC - MAGNITUDE: 5.3 M - DEPTH: 90.26 KM - LOCATION (LAT/LONG): 36.2165 | 140.5097 - COUNTRY: JAPAN - PROVINCE: KANTO(REGION) - REGION: NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN - UTC/GMT (GREENWICH TIME): 31 MAY 2020 21:02:10 UTC - ESTIMATED LOCAL SOLAR TIME: 01 JUN 2020 06:24:12 ============================================================================================================ POTENTIALLY AFFECTED CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: - NUCLEAR PLANTS: N/A - HYDRODAMS: N/A - AIRPORTS: HYAKURI (9.3 KM), (34.8 KM), RYUGASAKI (41.4 KM), RYUGASAKI SOUTH (45.6 KM), TOKYO NARITA INTERNATIONAL (51.3 KM), SHIMOFUSA (64.6 KM), SUZUMENOMIYA (64.8 KM), UTSUNOMIYA (66.3 KM), CHIBA-KEN (67.3 KM), SHIMOSHIZU (70.1 KM), OTAWARA (83.4 KM), ONISHI (92.3 KM), HONDA (92.8 KM), TOKYO HANEDA INTERNATIONAL (98.7 KM), SHIMO KOLZUMI (99.7 KM) - PORTS: HITACHI (32.8 KM), KASHIMA (38.8 KM), CHOSHI (60.6 KM), KATUNAN KO (76.8 KM), ANEGASAKI (77.1 KM), CHIBA (77.4 KM), GOI (84.4 KM), TOKYO (87.8 KM), ONAHAMA (87.9 KM), OGASAWARA (88.1 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: SUN, 31 MAY 2020 21:02:10 UTC EUROPEAN TIME OF THE EVENT: 31 MAY 2020 23:02:10 EAST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 31 MAY 2020 15:02:10 WEST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 31 MAY 2020 12:02:10 EAST ASIA TIME OF THE EVENT: 01 JUN 2020 04:02:10 THIS EMAIL REPORT WAS AUTOMATICALLY CREATED BY A COMPUTER AT: 31 MAY 2020 21:36:51 (34 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$AND;EPISODEID=1313475 FOR INFORMATION ON EMERGENCY RESPONSE, PLEASE CONSULT THE GDACS VIRTUAL OSOCC: HTTP://VOSOCC.UNOCHA.ORG ============================================================================================================ POPULATION DENSITY NEAR EPICENTER (PEOPLE/KM2). RADIUS (KM) POPULATION DENSITY (PEOPLE/KM2) 200 46658147 5941 175 44340308 5646 150 42832270 5454 125 37330168 4753 100 24038383 3061 75 9285026 1182 50 2423075 309 20 458344 58 10 58757 7 5 18688 2 2 2998 0 THE POPULATION IN THE 50 KM AREA OF THIS EARTHQUAKE IS 309 PEOPLE/KM2. ============================================================================================================ THE EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED AT 01 JUN 2020 06:24:12 LOCAL TIME. 01 JUN 2020 06:24:12 RESILIENCE AND VULNERABILITY ---------------------------- RESILIENCE IS THE CAPACITY OF THE POPULATION TO COPE WITH A HAZARD. SINCE MUCH OF INVESTMENTS IN EARTHQUAKE PREPAREDNESS AND AVAILABLE FUNDS FOR QUICK RESPONSE IS RELATED TO HOUSEHOLD INCOME, THE GDP PER CAPITA CAN BE USED AS A ROUGH INDICATOR OF RESILIENCE. JAPAN HAS A GDP PER CAPITA OF 42318 PPP$ (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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