Overall Green Earthquake alert in Solomon Is. on 12 Dec 2015 14:46 UTC

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M 4.8 in Solomon Is. on 12 Dec 2015 14:46 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 1075625
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	71.07 Km
Lat/Lon:	-10.1733 , 161.1561
Event Date:	12 Dec 2015 14:46 UTC 13 Dec 2015 01:46 Local
Exposed Population:	About 96336 people within 100km
Inserted at:	12 Dec 2015 17:18 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	-1		-1
	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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