M 6.8 in Solomon Islands on 20 May 2015 22:48 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 1055396
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.8M
Depth: 12 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.8886 , 164.1581
Event Date: 20 May 2015 22:48 UTC
21 May 2015 09:48 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 May 2015 23:55 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0.2 0.5
Scaled population (vector) n.a Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake n.a Max wave realtime 0.16m  
  C2 earthquake n.a      
  Country Vulnerability n.a      
  INFORM_normalised n.a      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 419 | About casualties: 11 | Last hour: 0

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Taiwans space programme offers tsunami satellite images to aid reliefSun, 24 May 2015 22:05:00 +0200.

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Cutremur după cutremur în Tonga, dar autorităţile susţin că nu există niciun pericol major. Cutremur cu magnitudine 6.3 - 6.4 în Tonga. Centrul de alertă pentru tsunami în Pacific a asigurat că nu există o ameninţare de tsunami, după ce cut
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (88), (5), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),