Overall Green Earthquake alert in India on 01 Apr 2019 02:28 UTC

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M 4.7 in India on 01 Apr 2019 02:28 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:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	7.7648 , 94.4501
Event Date:	01 Apr 2019 02:28 UTC 01 Apr 2019 08:28 Local
Exposed Population:	About 700 people within 100km
Source:	NEIC us2000k8aj
Inserted at:	01 Apr 2019 03:19 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score	4.6 (India)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us2000k8aj	Scaled population (vector)	1.86
	C1 earthquake	0.74
	C2 earthquake	-0.08
	Country Vulnerability	-0.39
	INFORM_normalised	0.94

Maximum expected impact using different data sources.

Episode Timeline

ID	Alert	Score	Date	Mag, Depth	MMI*	Population**	Tsunami risk***	Delay (hh:mm)	Source
1254551		0	01 Apr 2019 02:28	4.7M, 10km	N/A	Few people (in 100km)		00:51	NEIC

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* 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 India , Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands (population 295,612) .

Radius	Population
100 km	<1000 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
Andaman and Nicobar Islands	India	300000 people
Aceh	Indonesia	4.3 million people
Phangnga	Thailand	220000 people
Phuket	Thailand	170000 people
Surat Thani	Thailand	790000 people
Krabi	Thailand	290000 people
Tenasserim	Myanmar	1.2 million people
Ranong	Thailand	120000 people

Critical infrastructure

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

More information

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