Overall Green Earthquake alert in China on 03 Apr 2020 22:54 UTC

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M 4.8 in China on 03 Apr 2020 22:54 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:	4.8M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	32.6804 , 85.5495
Event Date:	03 Apr 2020 22:54 UTC 04 Apr 2020 06:54 Local
Exposed Population:	About 10000 people within 100km
Source:	NEIC us70008n5a
Inserted at:	03 Apr 2020 23:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score	3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us70008n5a	Scaled population (vector)	4.08
	C1 earthquake	1.39
	C2 earthquake	-0.24
	Country Vulnerability	0.26
	INFORM_normalised	0.82

Maximum expected impact using different data sources.

Episode Timeline

ID	Alert	Score	Date	Mag, Depth	MMI*	Population**	Tsunami risk***	Delay (hh:mm)	Source
1303890		0	03 Apr 2020 22:54	4.8M, 10km	N/A	10 thousand (in 100km)		00:20	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 China , Autonomous Region of Xizang (population 2,433,427) . The nearest places are Sêngdo, K'ang-jo, and Ladoiqangma.

Radius	Population
100 km	11000 people
75 km	5700 people
50 km	2500 people
20 km	<1000 people
10 km	<1000 people
5 km	<1000 people
2 km	no people

Affected Provinces

Region Province	Country	Population
Xizang	China	2.4 million people

Affected populated places

Name	Region Province	Country	City class	Population	Distance
Sêngdo	Xizang (Tibet)	China	Village	-	9 km
K'ang-jo	Xizang (Tibet)	China	Village	-	47 km
Ladoiqangma	Xizang (Tibet)	China	Village	-	69 km

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Critical infrastructure

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

More information

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