Overall Green Earthquake alert in Australia on 18 Aug 2016 04:30 UTC

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M 5.7 in Australia on 18 Aug 2016 04:30 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:	5.7M
Depth:	7.82 Km
Lat/Lon:	-19.8593 , 148.7255
Event Date:	18 Aug 2016 04:30 UTC 18 Aug 2016 14:30 Local
Exposed Population:	About 29000 people within 100km
Source:	NEIC us10006em9
Inserted at:	18 Aug 2016 04:51 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us10006em9	Scaled population (vector)	n.a
	C1 earthquake	n.a
	C2 earthquake	n.a
	Country Vulnerability	n.a
	INFORM_normalised	n.a

Maximum expected impact using different data sources.

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Episode Timeline

ID	Alert	Score	Date	Mag, Depth	MMI*	Population**	Tsunami risk***	Delay (hh:mm)	Source
1136965		0	18 Aug 2016 04:30	5.7M, 7.82km	6.4	30 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 Australia ,of Queensland (population 22,545) . The alertlevel for this event is Green

Intensity	Population
	no people

Shakemaps Timeline

Alert	Shake id #	Score	episodeid	Lat/Lon	Magnitude	Depth	Max MMI	Date shake (UTC)	Delay (hh:mm)
	1	0	1136965	-19.859/148.726	5.7	7.82	6.4	13 Oct 2016 15:11	56d 10:40	(new episode)

Affected Provinces

Intensity	Region Province	Country	Population
	Queensland	Australia	23000 people

Affected populated places. Areas of interest

Name	Region Province	Country	City class	Population	Distance
Airlie	Queensland	Australia	Village	-	46 km
Cannonvale	Queensland	Australia	Village	-	46 km
Windermere	Queensland	Australia	Village	-	50 km
Lower Gregory	Queensland	Australia	Village	-	50 km
Strathdickie North	Queensland	Australia	Village	-	52 km
Bowen	Queensland	Australia	City	11000 people	53 km
Debella	Queensland	Australia	Village	-	53 km
Strathdickie	Queensland	Australia	Village	-	54 km
Mount Marlow	Queensland	Australia	Village	-	56 km
Foxdale	Queensland	Australia	Village	-	57 km
Bona Vista	Queensland	Australia	Village	-	58 km
Mount Julian	Queensland	Australia	Village	-	58 km
Mookarra	Queensland	Australia	Village	-	59 km
Red Hill	Queensland	Australia	Village	-	60 km
Merinda	Queensland	Australia	Village	-	61 km
Proserpine	Queensland	Australia	City	-	62 km
Conway	Queensland	Australia	Village	-	63 km
Kelsey Creek	Queensland	Australia	Village	-	68 km
Lethebrook	Queensland	Australia	Village	-	76 km
Banana Pocket	Queensland	Australia	Village	-	77 km
Guthalungra	Queensland	Australia	Village	-	93 km
Gumlu	Queensland	Australia	Village	-	109 km
Iyah	Queensland	Australia	Village	-	135 km
Inkerman	Queensland	Australia	Village	-	136 km

see full list

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
Hayman Island	HIS	unknown				0	27 km
Hook Island	HIH	unknown				0	42 km
Shute Harbour Heliport	JHQ	unknown				0	47 km
Bowen	ZBO	8	Civ.	Unpaved	Yes	4400	56 km
Hamilton Island	HTI	5	Civ.	Paved	Yes	5900	60 km
Daydream Island	DDI	unknown				0	66 km
Proserpine	PPP	25	Civ.	Paved	Yes	6800	73 km

Ports

Intensity	Name	LOCODE	Country	Distance
	Bowen	AUZBO	Coral Sea Islands	53 km
	Abbot Point	AUABP	Coral Sea Islands	68 km

Dams

Intensity	Reservoir	Dam Name	River	Year	Distance
		Peter Faust	Proserpine	1990	66 km

More information

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