Fwd: 8.3 Chile Earthquake
Everett Batey
Magnitude 8.8 - OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE 2010 February 27 06:34:14 UTC
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From: Sophia Liu <Sophi...@colorado.edu>
Date: Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 1:01 AM
Subject: 8.3 Chile Earthquake
To: crisis...@googlegroups.com
From: GDACS <gdacs-...@jrc.ec.europa.eu>
Date: February 27, 2010 12:30:10 AM MST
Subject: Red tsunami alert (8.3M,depth:59.4km) in Chile (Ramadillas) 27/2 06:34UTC, Pop100km:0.6m, tsunami -1m www.gdacs.org - JRC
Red Earthquake Alert Chile ![]()
Summary
On 2/27/2010 6:34:17 AM UTC (about 01:43h local time) an earthquake of magnitude 8.3 occurred in the moderately populated region of Bio-Bio in Chile. The earthquake happened 116km from Concepci?n. The nearest populated places are: Ramadillas (19km), Canelillos (16km), Trogualemo (16km), Molinos (11km), Las Quilas (13km), Chevelle (7km), Curanipe (4km), La Matanza (20km), Las Lomas (9km), Infiernillo (12km), Lagunillas (19km), Chanco (16km). The closest civilian airport is Quivolgo (63km).
It is likely that a tsunami was generated. The maximum tsunami wave height near the coast of will be m. Please refer to the GDACS tsunami report for more details.
Potentially affected critical infrastructure:
- Nuclear plants: [None]
- Hydrodams: Chimburango (189km), Maule (194km)
- Airports: Los Angeles (177km), La Playa (162km), Siberia (159km), Carriel Sur International (111km), General Bernardo O Higgins (102km), Linares (101km), Panguilemo (109km), Quivolgo (63km)
- Ports: Puerto Yana (193km), Lota (149km), Coronel (141km), San Vicente (109km), Lirquen (101km), Talca (104km), Talcahuano (102km), Tome (92km), Constitucion (62km)
Based on an automated impact model, this earthquake, which occurred in a region with low vulnerability to natural disasters, has potentially ahigh humanitarian impact.
Whether international humanitarian aid is needed must be decided by an expert.
Event Date Univ. Time: Sat, 2/27/2010 06:34 UTC European Time of the event: Sat, 2/27/2010 07:34 CET (Brussels, Paris, Rome) East America Time of the event: Sat, 2/27/2010 01:34 EST (New York, Washington) West America Time of the event: Fri, 2/26/2010 22:34 PST (San Francisco, Los Angeles) East Asia Time of the event: Sat, 2/27/2010 15:34 JTI (Tokyo) This email report was automatically created by a computer at: 2/27/2010 7:30:24 AM UTC (56 minutes after the event) See the GDACS website for live news coverage (including OCHA Situation Reports), the full earthquake report and tsunami report .
For information on emergency response, please consult the GDACS Virtual OSOCC.
Tsunami Event
It is likely that a tsunami was generated. Based on precalculated scenarios, the maximum tsunami wave height near the coast of will be m.
A detailed tsunami wave height calculation is ongoing and should be available 20 minutes after this report was created. Results can be slightly different than the precalculated scenario. The outcome can be checked here: GDACS tsunami report .
Travel time map.
Other maps: maximum wave height, animation.
Earthquake Event
Characteristics
- Source: World Data Centre for Seismology, Denver (NEIC) M
- Magnitude: 8.3 M
- Depth: 59.4 km
- Location (Lat/Long): -35.8263 | -72.6686
- Country: Chile
- Province: Bio-Bio
- Region: Offshore Maule
- UTC/GMT (Greenwich time): 2/27/2010 6:34:17 AM
- Estimated local solar time: 2/27/2010 1:43:37 AM
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Population Density near epicenter (people/km2). Image area: 6x4 decimal degrees (approx. 650x450km2).Earthquake Impact Details
Potentially affected People
Population Data
Radius (km) Population Density (people/km?) 1 0 0 2 0 0 5 1270 16 10 4032 12 20 10961 8 50 84252 10 100 630242 20 200 3010499 23 The population in the area of this earthquake is 10 people/km?.
The earthquake occurred at 1h local time. At this time a day, more people are at home and therefore more vulnerable to collapsing residential buildings. During traffic hours, people can be affected by collapsing bridges and other road infrastructure.
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.
Chile has a GDP per capita of 5121 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 Chile a low vulnerability.
ECHO Intervention Priority Ranking for Chile
Overall situation Human Development Human Poverty
Exposure to Major Disasters Natural Disasters
Conflicts
Humanitarian effects of population movement Refugees Internally Displaced People Health and Nutrition Undernourishment Mortality rates Donor contributions Official Development assistance
Source ECHO
Key:Bad -
Medium -
Good -
No data
Secondary effects
Probability of secondary effects:
Landslides: The maximum slope in the area of the earthquake is 25.82% and the maximum altitude is 796 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: The following hydrodam installations are near the epicenter: Chimburango (189km), Maule (194km)
Tsunami: No tsunami risk.
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 this website.
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Roger E. Rustad, Jr.
Per USGS .. make that 8.8 -- already hurts enough ..
Ev, are you aware of any amateur radio groups that follow events like this?
Everett Batey
IARU_Region 2 is on Twitter but I'm still looking into any Standup by CrisisCommons and later on APAN.
It takes us in ham radio and telecomm a while to get off our ass and on our feet. Lack of planning on my part ... Ev's Crisis Site a/k/a lione...@gmail.com or efb...@cotdazr.org
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