Overall Green Earthquake alert in Solomon Is. on 13 Apr 2016 21:40 UTC

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M 4.6 in Solomon Is. on 13 Apr 2016 21:40 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 1084320
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	73.28 Km
Lat/Lon:	-10.1982 , 161.1095
Event Date:	13 Apr 2016 21:40 UTC 14 Apr 2016 08:40 Local
Exposed Population:	About 91961 people within 100km
Inserted at:	13 Apr 2016 22:03 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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