Overall Green Earthquake alert in China on 10 May 2017 21:58 UTC

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M 5.4 in China on 10 May 2017 21:58 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:	5.4M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	37.6593 , 75.253
Event Date:	10 May 2017 21:58 UTC 11 May 2017 05:58 Local
Exposed Population:	About 7000 people in MMI About 49000 people within 100km
Source:	NEIC us10008rah
Inserted at:	10 May 2017 22:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score:	7.5 (Afghanistan)
INFORM Coping capacity of the affected contries:	Afghanistan= 7.5; Pakistan= 5.7; Tajikistan= 5.1; China= 3.6

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us10008rah	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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
1167326		0	10 May 2017 21:58	5.4M, 10km	5.82	N/A (in MMI>=VII)		00:19	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 ,of Xinjiang (population 2,549) . The alertlevel for this event is Green

Intensity	Population
	17000 people

Shakemaps Timeline

Alert	Shake id #	Score	episodeid	Lat/Lon	Magnitude	Depth	Max MMI	Date shake (UTC)	Delay (hh:mm)
	1	0	1167326	37.659/75.253	5.4	10	5.82	12 May 2017 18:27	1d 20:28	(new episode)

Affected Provinces

Region Province	Country	Population
Xinjiang	China	17000 people
Xinjiang	China	12000 people
Dushanbe	Tajikistan	1800 people

Affected populated places. Areas of interest

Name	Region Province	Country	City class	Population	Distance
Taxkorgan	Xinjiang (Sinkiang)	China	Village	-	18 km
Shen-ti	Xinjiang (Sinkiang)	China	Village	-	27 km
Shaymak	Kuhistoni Badakhshon	Tajikistan	Village	-	40 km
A-chieh-ko-pa-i	Xinjiang (Sinkiang)	China	Village	-	52 km
Kyzylrabot	Kuhistoni Badakhshon	Tajikistan	Village	-	53 km
Tokhtamysh	Kuhistoni Badakhshon	Tajikistan	Village	-	57 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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