M 4.7 in Eritrea on 27 Apr 2024 20:44 UTC

Hazard models

Rapid Impact
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: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 15.7763 , 39.5887
Event Date: 27 Apr 2024 20:44 UTC
27 Apr 2024 23:44 Local
Exposed Population:
170 thousand in MMI IV
Source: NEIC us6000mugq
Inserted at: 27 Apr 2024 22:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score: 7.9 (Eritrea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000mugq Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.

The green area correspond to areas affected by strong shaking (MMI VI or higher) according to the simulation.


Episode Timeline

IDAlertScoreDateMag, DepthMMI*Population**Tsunami risk***Delay (hh:mm)Source
1567718 0 27 Apr 2024 20:44 4.7M, 10km 4.47 N/A (in MMI>=VII) N/A 01:19 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.

Rapid Impact

The results presented below are calculated with the ShakeMap open source software (USGS) using only earthquake hypocenter information to provide a rapid estimation of the ground motion and shaking intensity without taking into account any instrumental observations or earthquake source scaling laws.

Exposed population

The earthquake happened in Eritrea ,of Samhar (population 55,322) . The alertlevel for this event is GREEN

Intensity Population
no people

Affected Provinces

Intensity Region Province Country Population
Samhar Eritrea 55000 people

Affected populated places. Areas of interest

Intensity Name Region Province Country City class Population Distance
Emberemi Eritrea Village - 19 km

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Critical infrastructure

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

Ports

Intensity Name LOCODE Country Distance
Massawa ERMSW Eritrea 19 km

More information

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