M 5.6 in Solomon Islands on 08 Dec 2016 18:03 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 1100352
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 42.31 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.3758 , 161.3233
Event Date: 08 Dec 2016 18:03 UTC
09 Dec 2016 05:03 Local
Exposed Population: About 58000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Dec 2016 23:27 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20007z8m 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: 436 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

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Publicado 7:05 am por archivado en Cerca de 84.000 personas se encuentran sin hogar en la provincia indonesia de Aceh tras el terremoto de magnitud 6,5 que sacudió el pasado miércoles esta región y causó un centenar de muertos, informaron h
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Autoridades elevan a 84.000 los desplazados por último terremoto en In ... Mon, 12 Dec 2016 13:51:00 +0100.

. Bangkok. El Papa aboga por la práctica de la “no violencia” para conseguir la paz – Cerca de 84.000 personas se encuentran sin hogar en la provincia de Aceh tras el terremoto de magnitud 6,5 que sacudió el pasado miércoles esta región y
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),