M 5.2 in Solomon Is. on 29 Jan 2016 00:02 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 1079547
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 66.66 Km
Lat/Lon: -11.3932 , 166.2249
Event Date: 29 Jan 2016 00:02 UTC
29 Jan 2016 11:02 Local
Exposed Population:
About 22730 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Jan 2016 00:18 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  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Researchers find source of 1964 devastating Alaska tsunami 2/1/2016 10:51:00 PM.

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Researchers find source of 1964 devastating Alaska tsunami 2/1/2016 10:20:00 PM.

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Lawyers brace for ‘tsunami’ of body camera video 2/1/2016 10:20:00 PM.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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 (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),