M 5.8 in Solomon Islands on 09 Dec 2016 21:38 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 1100484
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.9254 , 161.414
Event Date: 09 Dec 2016 21:38 UTC
10 Dec 2016 08:38 Local
Exposed Population: About 39000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 09 Dec 2016 22:54 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20007zn7 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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Latest media headlines

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Cómo los terremotos han sacudido la Tierra en los últimos 15 añosTue, 13 Dec 2016 19:38:00 +0100.

En los últimos 15 años la Tierra ha sido sacudida por algunos de los terremotos más devastadores desde que se lleva registro. En 2004 un sismo de magnitud 9,1 en la escala de Richter dio pie a un devastador tsunami que arrasó la línea coste
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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),