Overall Green Earthquake alert in Solomon Is. on 20 Apr 2014 00:15 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 1030169
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.1M
Depth:	18.09 Km
Lat/Lon:	-7.1672 , 155.3119
Event Date:	20 Apr 2014 00:15 UTC 20 Apr 2014 11:15 Local
Exposed Population:	About 32299 people within 100km
Inserted at:	20 Apr 2014 00:35 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
	Scaled population (vector)	n.a
	C1 earthquake	n.a
	C2 earthquake	n.a
	Country Vulnerability	n.a
	INFORM_normalised	n.a

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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