WOEW40 EJRC 061054 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. ****************************************** * WHITE EARTHQUAKE ALERT IN GREECE * ****************************************** SUMMARY ON 06 DEC 2015 10:44:14 UTC (ABOUT 06 DEC 2015 12:08:58 LOCAL TIME) AN EARTHQUAKE OF MAGNITUDE 4 OCCURRED IN THE VERY HIGHLY POPULATED REGION OF THESSALIA IN GREECE. LÏ¿½RISA THE NEAREST POPULATED PLACES ARE: LÏ¿½RISA (106 KM). THE CLOSEST CIVILIAN AIRPORT IS: IOANNINA (31.3 KM). EARTHQUAKE EVENT CHARACTERISTICS - SOURCE: NOAIG - MAGNITUDE: 4 M - DEPTH: 5 KM - LOCATION (LAT/LONG): 39.6658 | 21.1841 - COUNTRY: GREECE - PROVINCE: THESSALIA(REGION) - REGION: GREECE - UTC/GMT (GREENWICH TIME): 06 DEC 2015 10:44:14 UTC - ESTIMATED LOCAL SOLAR TIME: 06 DEC 2015 12:08:58 ============================================================================================================ POTENTIALLY AFFECTED CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: - NUCLEAR PLANTS: N/A - HYDRODAMS: PIGAE AOOS (29.4 KM), MESSOCHORA (24.5 KM) - AIRPORTS: IOANNINA (31.3 KM), AKTION (89.6 KM), ARISTOTELES (87 KM), PHILIPPOS (88.9 KM) - PORTS: IGOUMENITSA (81.4 KM), VONITSA (87.7 KM), ARTA (57.4 KM), PARGA (80.3 KM), AMFILOKHIA (88.5 KM), PREVEZA (88 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, 06 DEC 2015 10:44:14 UTC EUROPEAN TIME OF THE EVENT: 06 DEC 2015 11:44:14 EAST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 06 DEC 2015 04:44:14 WEST AMERICA TIME OF THE EVENT: 06 DEC 2015 01:44:14 EAST ASIA TIME OF THE EVENT: 06 DEC 2015 18:44:14 THIS EMAIL REPORT WAS AUTOMATICALLY CREATED BY A COMPUTER AT: 06 DEC 2015 10:54:24 (10 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$AND;EPISODEID=1110174 FOR INFORMATION ON EMERGENCY RESPONSE, PLEASE CONSULT THE GDACS VIRTUAL OSOCC: HTTP://VOSOCC.UNOCHA.ORG ============================================================================================================ POPULATION DENSITY NEAR EPICENTER (PEOPLE/KM2). RADIUS (KM) POPULATION DENSITY (PEOPLE/KM2) 200 5987030 762 175 3928914 500 150 2631798 335 125 1864030 237 100 1014079 129 75 553047 70 50 206919 26 20 10601 1 10 809 0 5 182 0 2 55 0 THE POPULATION IN THE 50 KM AREA OF THIS EARTHQUAKE IS 26 PEOPLE/KM2. ============================================================================================================ THE EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED AT 06 DEC 2015 12:08:58 LOCAL TIME. 06 DEC 2015 12:08:58 RESILIENCE AND VULNERABILITY ---------------------------- RESILIENCE IS THE CAPACITY OF THE POPULATION TO COPE WITH A HAZARD. SINCE MUCH OF INVESTMENTS IN EARTHQUAKE PREPAREDNESS AND AVAILABLE FUNDS FOR QUICK RESPONSE IS RELATED TO HOUSEHOLD INCOME, THE GDP PER CAPITA CAN BE USED AS A ROUGH INDICATOR OF RESILIENCE. GREECE HAS A GDP PER CAPITA OF 12652 PPP$ (PARITY PURCHASING POWER DOLLAR, ABOUT 1 EURO) AND IS THEREFORE PART OF THE MEDIUM LEVEL INCOME COUNTRIES. THEREFORE, THE EARTHQUAKE HAPPENED IN AN AREA OF MEDIUM RESILIENCE. BASED ON THE COMBINATION OF 9 INDICATORS, ECHO ATTRIBUTES GREECE A LOW VULNERABILITY. ============================================================================================================ SECONDARY EFFECTS ----------------- PROBABILITY OF SECONDARY EFFECTS: - LANDSLIDES: THE MAXIMUM SLOPE IN THE AREA OF THE EARTHQUAKE IS 61% AND THE MAXIMUM ALTITUDE IS 2402 M. SINCE THIS IS A HIGH SLOPE, THE RISK OF EARTHQUAKE INDUCED LANDSLIDES IS HIGH. 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: THE SPECIFIED HYDRODAM INSTALLATIONS ARE NEAR THE EPICENTER. JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE, EUROPEAN COMMISSION (JRC-EC) - OFFICE FOR COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS (UN-OCHA) ________________________________________ DISCLAIMER WHILE WE TRY EVERYTHING TO ENSURE ACCURACY, THIS INFORMATION IS PURELY INDICATIVE AND SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR ANY DECISION MAKING WITHOUT ALTERNATE SOURCES OF INFORMATION. THE JRC IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE OR LOSS RESULTING FROM THE USE OF THE INFORMATION PRESENTED ON GDACS WEBSITE. PLEASE REFER TO THE GDACS WEBSITE FOR SUBSCRIBING OR UNSUBSCRIBING FROM THE EARTHQUAKE ALERT EMAIL OR SMS SERVICE. END OF EARTHQUAKE MESSAGE 001