M 5.6 in China from 20 May 2024 05:10 UTC to 05:10

Hazard models

Rapid Impact
Shakemap
Tsunami

Event summary

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

Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 40.14 , 77.0348
Event Date: 20 May 2024 05:10 UTC
20 May 2024 13:10 Local
Exposed Population: 6 thousand (in MMI>=VII)
Source: NEIC us6000mzrr
Inserted at: 20 May 2024 05:28 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score: 3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 1.3 1.3
us6000mzrr Scaled population (raster) 2.67  
  C1 rapid impact -0.37  
  C2 rapid impact 0.76  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.82  
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

IDAlertScoreDateMag, DepthMMI*Population**Tsunami risk***Delay (hh:mm)Source
1572004 1.3 20 May 2024 05:10 5.6M, 10km 7.07 7 thousand (in MMI>=VII) N/A 00:18 NEIC
1572007 0.3 20 May 2024 05:10 5.1M, 10km 6.37 N/A (in MMI>=VII) N/A 01:13 NEIC
1572084 0 20 May 2024 05:10 5.1M, 28km 5.37 N/A (in MMI>=VII) N/A 10:32 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 China ,of Xinjiang (population 16,794,560) . The alertlevel for this event is ORANGE

Intensity Population
6900 people
18000 people
24000 people

Affected Provinces

Intensity Region Province Country Population
Xinjiang China <1000 people
Xinjiang China 13000 people
Xinjiang China 30000 people
Xinjiang China 320000 people

Affected populated places. Areas of interest

Intensity Name Region Province Country City class Population Distance
Ya-to-pi Xinjiang (Sinkiang) China Village - 13 km
A-ko-to Xinjiang (Sinkiang) China Village - 19 km
Jih-mu-pi-li Xinjiang (Sinkiang) China Village - 27 km
To-kai-erh-mai-tan Xinjiang (Sinkiang) China Village - 60 km
Jiashi Xinjiang (Sinkiang) China Village - 77 km

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Critical infrastructure

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

More information

For a full list of available products related to this event, please refer to the GDACS Resources page.