M 5.5 in Mongolia on 26 Apr 2026 04:23 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: 5.5M
Depth: 11 Km
Lat/Lon: 46.8638 , 93.0122
Event Date: 26 Apr 2026 04:23 UTC
26 Apr 2026 11:23 Local
Exposed Population: 8 thousand in MMI V
Source: NEIC us6000ssxt
Inserted at: 26 Apr 2026 15:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score: 5.1 (Mongolia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000ssxt 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

IDLevelScoreDateMag, DepthMMI*Population**Tsunami risk***Delay (hh:mm)Source
1702288 0.2 26 Apr 2026 04:23 5.9M, 10km 7.16 481 (in MMI>=VII) N/A 00:21 NEIC
1702381 0 26 Apr 2026 04:23 5.5M, 11km 6.27 N/A (in MMI>=VII) N/A 11:18 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 Mongolia ,of Hovd (population 90,242) . The alertlevel for this event is GREEN

Intensity Population
<1000 people
2000 people

Affected Provinces

Intensity Region Province Country Population
Hovd Mongolia no people
Hovd Mongolia 7700 people
Hovd Mongolia 2600 people

Critical infrastructure

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

More information

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