Overall Green Earthquake alert in Russian Federation from 28 May 2017 07:06 UTC to 07:06

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M 5.6 in Russian Federation from 28 May 2017 07:06 UTC to 07:06

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:	5.6M
Depth:	8 Km
Lat/Lon:	51.576 , -175.297
Event Date:	28 May 2017 07:06 UTC 27 May 2017 19:06 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Source:	NTWC at00oqniee
Inserted at:	28 May 2017 07:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score	1.1 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NTWC	0		0
at00oqniee	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
1169198		0	28 May 2017 07:06	5.6M, 8km	N/A	No people affected (in 100km)		00:05	NTWC
1169201		0	28 May 2017 07:06	5.5M, 50.72km	4.05	No people affected (in 100km)		00:17	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.

Exposed population

The earthquake happened in Russian Federation , Region of Irkutskaya oblast'.

Radius	Population
100 km	no people
75 km	no 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
Respublika Tyva	Russian Federation	320000 people

Critical infrastructure

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

Airports

Name	IATA Code	Elevation (m)	Distance
Saryg-Sep		762	5771 km
Kyzyl South		657	5822 km
Kyzyl	KYZ	unknown	5823 km

More information

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