Overall Green Earthquake alert in United States from 17 Jun 2017 00:17 UTC to 00:17

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M 5.7 in United States from 17 Jun 2017 00:17 UTC to 00:17

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:	26.48 Km
Lat/Lon:	51.7466 , -173.3931
Event Date:	17 Jun 2017 00:17 UTC 16 Jun 2017 12:17 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Source:	NEIC us20009n7f
Inserted at:	17 Jun 2017 00:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score	2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us20009n7f	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

Maximum expected impact using different data sources.

Episode Timeline

ID	Date	Mag, Depth	MMI*	Population**	Delay (hh:mm)	Source
1171005	17 Jun 2017 00:17	5.3M, 25.6km	N/A	No people affected (in 100km)	00:16	ALASKA EC
1171006	17 Jun 2017 00:17	5.7M, 26.48km	3.89	No people affected (in 100km)	00:18	NEIC
1171007	17 Jun 2017 00:17	5.4M, 19.58km	3.59	No people affected (in 100km)	00:22	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 United States , State of Alaska (population 572,432) .

Radius	Population
100 km	no 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
Alaska	United States	570000 people

Critical infrastructure

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

Ports

Name	LOCODE	Country	Distance
Palisades Point		Wake Island	76 km

More information

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