M 5 in China on 28 Aug 2026 05:13 UTC

Hazard models

Rapid Impact
Shakemap
Tsunami

Event summary

This earthquake is expected to have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Glide number: EQ-2026-000168-CHN
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 29.2752 , 105.229
Event Date: 28 Aug 2026 05:13 UTC
28 Aug 2026 13:13 Local
Exposed Population:
300 thousand in MMI VI
Source: NEIC us7000tcht
Inserted at: 28 Aug 2026 05:32 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score: 3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 1 1
us7000tcht Scaled population (raster) 2.12  
  C1 rapid impact -0.37  
  C2 rapid impact 0.76  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.82  
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

IDLevelScoreDateMag, DepthMMI*Population**Tsunami risk***Delay (hh:mm)Source
1729706 1 28 Aug 2026 05:13 5M, 10km 6.28 N/A (in MMI>=VII) N/A 00:18 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 China ,of Sichuan (population 118,811,800) . The alertlevel for this event is ORANGE

Intensity Population
300000 people
1.7 million people

Affected Provinces

Intensity Region Province Country Population
Sichuan China 410000 people
Sichuan China 1.5 million people
Sichuan China 5.1 million people

Critical infrastructure

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

Airports

Intensity Name IATA Code Elevation (m) Usage Runway type IFR Runway Length (ft) Distance
Luzhou LZO 219 0 49 km
Dazu DZU 365 0 66 km

Dams

Intensity Reservoir Dam Name River Year Distance
Guyumiao 1979 6 km
Bailinsi 1958 17 km
Huanghezhen 1960 42 km
Sanxikou 1962 44 km
Songlin n/a 49 km
Muqiaogou 1975 52 km
Yutan Laixi 2011 54 km
Longshuihu 1958 63 km
Longjiang 1980 74 km

More information

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