M 5.1 in United States on 08 Apr 2023 20:25 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: 5.1M
Depth: 65.5 Km
Lat/Lon: 53.9114 , -165.4682
Event Date: 08 Apr 2023 20:25 UTC
08 Apr 2023 12:25 Local
Exposed Population: 4 thousand in MMI IV
Source: ALASKA EC ak0234ieq2c8
Inserted at: 14 Apr 2023 22:04 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score: 2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
ALASKA EC 0 0
ak0234ieq2c8 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
1499618 0 08 Apr 2023 20:25 5M, 60km 3.64 N/A (in MMI>=VII) N/A 00:08 NTWC
1499621 0 08 Apr 2023 20:25 4.9M, 36.1km 3.03 N/A (in MMI>=VII) N/A 00:13 ALASKA EC
1499623 0 08 Apr 2023 20:25 5.1M, 66.396km 3.84 N/A (in MMI>=VII) N/A 00:16 NEIC
1500442 0 08 Apr 2023 20:25 5.1M, 56.2km 3.75 N/A (in MMI>=VII) N/A 5d 05:42 ALASKA EC
1500562 0 08 Apr 2023 20:25 5.1M, 65.5km 3.85 N/A (in MMI>=VII) N/A 6d 01:39 ALASKA EC
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 unknowed a zone. The alertlevel for this event is GREEN

Intensity Population
no people

Affected Provinces

Critical infrastructure

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

More information

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