M 4.8 in Solomon Is. on 08 Mar 2016 18:31 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 1082102
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 74.62 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.1118 , 161.2911
Event Date: 08 Mar 2016 18:31 UTC
09 Mar 2016 05:31 Local
Exposed Population:
About 95861 people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Mar 2016 20:06 UTC

GDACS Score

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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  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 1601 | About casualties: 86 | Last hour: 0

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