Overall Green Earthquake alert in Solomon Islands on 28 May 2023 03:29 UTC

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M 5.6 in Solomon Islands on 28 May 2023 03:29 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID	EQ 1376018
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.6M
Depth:	103.855 Km
Lat/Lon:	-10.1488 , 161.1942
Event Date:	28 May 2023 03:29 UTC 28 May 2023 14:29 Local
Exposed Population:	110 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at:	28 May 2023 03:47 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	6.6 (Solomon Is.)

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000k4jy	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 shakemap	-0.59
	C2 shakemap	0.53
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),

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