M 5.6 in Solomon Islands on 09 Dec 2016 23:39 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 1100493
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 68.94 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.4076 , 161.318
Event Date: 09 Dec 2016 23:39 UTC
10 Dec 2016 10:39 Local
Exposed Population: About 55000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Dec 2016 00:00 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20007zpc 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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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),