Overall Green Earthquake alert in United States on 09 Mar 2017 13:03 UTC

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M 4.71 in United States on 09 Mar 2017 13:03 UTC

Hazard models

EQ parameters

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:	4.7M
Depth:	31.966 Km
Lat/Lon:	21.7531667 , -156.8668333
Event Date:	09 Mar 2017 13:03 UTC 09 Mar 2017 03:03 Local
Exposed Population:	About 30000 people within 100km
Source:	HVO hv61636051
Inserted at:	10 Mar 2017 00:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score	2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
HVO	0		0
hv61636051	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

Maximum expected impact using different data sources.

Episode Timeline

ID	Alert	Score	Date	Mag, Depth	MMI*	Population**	Tsunami risk***	Delay (hh:mm)	Source
1160048		0	09 Mar 2017 13:03	4.71M, 31.966km	3.84	30 thousand (in 100km)		11:11	HVO

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.

Exposed population

The earthquake happened in United States , State of Hawaii (population 1,153,336) . The nearest places are Kalaupapa, Halawa, Hoolehua, Kualapuu, and Moomomi.

Radius	Population
100 km	31000 people
75 km	3600 people
50 km	no people
20 km	no people
10 km	no people
5 km	no people
2 km	no people

Affected Provinces

Region Province	Country	Population
Hawaii	United States	1.2 million people

Affected populated places

Name	Region Province	Country	City class	Population	Distance
Kalaupapa	Hawaii	United States	Village	-	63 km
Halawa	Hawaii	United States	Village	-	67 km
Hoolehua	Hawaii	United States	Village	-	68 km
Kualapuu	Hawaii	United States	Village	1900 people	68 km
Moomomi	Hawaii	United States	Village	-	68 km

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Critical infrastructure

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

Airports

Name	IATA Code	Elevation (m)	Usage	Runway type	IFR	Runway Length (ft)	Distance
Kalaupapa	LUP	7				0	61 km
Molokai	MKK	138	Civ.	Paved	Yes	4400	71 km
Panda		76				0	78 km
Kapalua West Maui	JHM	78				0	90 km

Ports

Name	Country	Distance
Kaunakakai	Wake Island	75 km
Pukoo	Wake Island	76 km
Kamalo	Wake Island	78 km

More information

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