Overall Green Earthquake alert in Mexico on 21 Sep 2017 20:22 UTC

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M 4.8 in Mexico on 21 Sep 2017 20:22 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:	65.44 Km
Lat/Lon:	15.2536 , -93.8962
Event Date:	21 Sep 2017 20:22 UTC 21 Sep 2017 14:22 Local
Exposed Population:	140000 people within 100km
Source:	NEIC us2000ass7
Inserted at:	21 Sep 2017 23:01 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score:	4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us2000ass7	Scaled population (vector)	4.21
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	-1
	INFORM_normalised	0.92

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
1181455		0	21 Sep 2017 20:22	4.8M, 60.38km	N/A	150 thousand (in 100km)		00:19	NEIC
1181468		0	21 Sep 2017 20:22	4.8M, 65.44km	N/A	150 thousand (in 100km)		02:38	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 ,of Kamchatskaya oblast' (population 383) . The alertlevel for this event is GREEN

Intensity	Population
	no people
	<1000 people

Shakemaps Timeline

Alert	Shake id #	Score	episodeid	Lat/Lon	Magnitude	Depth	Max MMI	Date shake (UTC)	Delay (hh:mm)
	1	0	1181298	55.073/165.726	5.1	38.6	4.12	10 Jan 2018 13:01	3d 10:37	(new episode)

Affected Provinces

Intensity	Region Province	Country	Population
	Kamchatskaya oblast'	Russian Federation	<1000 people
	Kamchatskaya oblast'	Russian Federation	<1000 people

Affected populated places. Areas of interest

Name	Region Province	Country	City class	Population	Distance
Nikolskoye	Kamchatskaya	Russia	Village	<1000 people	22 km
Severnoye	Kamchatskaya	Russia	Village	-	36 km
Sarannove	Kamchatskaya	Russia	Village	-	38 km
Preobrazhenskoye	Kamchatskaya	Russia	Village	-	125 km

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Critical infrastructure

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

Ports

Name	Country	Distance
Nikol Skoye	Russia	21 km
Nikolskoye	Russia	26 km
Myedhi Island	Russia	130 km

More information

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