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M 5.7 Off-shore from 27 Mar 2024 03:23 UTC to 03:23

Hazard models

Rapid Impact

Shakemap

Tsunami

Event summary

This earthquake is expected to have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

Earthquake Magnitude:	5.7M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	42.3072 , -126.5931
Event Date:	27 Mar 2024 03:23 UTC 26 Mar 2024 19:23 Local
Exposed Population:
Source:	NEIC us7000m875
Inserted at:	27 Mar 2024 03:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score:	1.1 (United States)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Rapid Impact)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000m875	Scaled population (raster)	0
	C1 rapid impact	0
	C2 rapid impact	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

Maximum expected impact using different data sources.

The green area correspond to areas affected by strong shaking (MMI VI or higher) according to the simulation.

Episode Timeline

ID	Date	Mag, Depth	MMI*	Population**	Tsunami risk***	Delay (hh:mm)	Source
1561335	27 Mar 2024 03:23	5.8M, 15km	6.27	N/A (in MMI>=VII)	N/A	00:10	NTWC
1561336	27 Mar 2024 03:23	5.7M, 10km	6.3	N/A (in MMI>=VII)	N/A	00:09	NEIC
1562267	27 Mar 2024 03:23	5.6M, 10km	6.2	N/A (in MMI>=VII)	N/A	4d 20:59	NEIC

The episode that generated the alert; the next major evaluations beyond 12 hours will not trigger additional alerts.

The episode that has the last updated information.

* The max MMI detected for sources having shakemaps;
** The population detected in MMI>=7 for episode with shakemap or in a 100km radius;
*** The tsunami max height.

Rapid Impact

The results presented below are calculated with the ShakeMap open source software (USGS) using only earthquake hypocenter information to provide a rapid estimation of the ground motion and shaking intensity without taking into account any instrumental observations or earthquake source scaling laws.

Exposed population

The earthquake happened in unknowed a zone. The alertlevel for this event is GREEN

Intensity	Population
	no people

Affected Provinces

Critical infrastructure

Airports, ports, nuclear plants and hydrodams at risk, if affected, are listed below.

More information

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