M 5.5 in Solomon Islands on 10 Dec 2016 02:45 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 1100507
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.8915 , 161.2944
Event Date: 10 Dec 2016 02:45 UTC
10 Dec 2016 13:45 Local
Exposed Population: About 31000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Dec 2016 03:06 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20007zq6 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

Articles: 781 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

Malaysian Red Crescent assessing damage in Banda Aceh quakeWed, 14 Dec 2016 02:03:00 +0100.

BANDA ACEH: The Malaysian Red Crescent is shocked at the derelict state of the orphanage it built in Pidie here after the 2004 earthquake and tsunami. Its national executive board member James Kon said he didn't expect to see the orphanage
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OCHA 20161213 Reporte Flash: Réplicas cantón Atacames, provincia de Es ... Wed, 14 Dec 2016 00:06:00 +0100.

Tras el terremoto del pasado 16 de abril se han registrado 2.900 réplicas (IGEPN, diciembre 13). El 12 de diciembre se registraron nueve réplicas en las costas frente al cantón Atacames provincia de Esmeraldas, las de mayor magnitud ocurrie
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بري اراد ان تكون «الاشغال» مسمار جحا - اسكندر شاهينTue, 13 Dec 2016 23:50:00 +0100.

ثمة قواسم مشتركة كثيرة يتشاطرها رئيس مجلس النواب نبيه بري والنائب سليمان فرنجية للوقوف في وجه عهد الرئيس ميشال عون وفق الاوساط المواكبة للمجريات فجرح معركة الرئاسة الاولى لم يلتئم بعد واذا ما ختم فسيختم على زغل كون القصة ليست «قصة رمانة بل
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Record Setting Wave Recorded In North AtlanticTue, 13 Dec 2016 23:08:00 +0100.

The World Meteorological Organization, the United Nations' weather agency, announced Tuesday it had measured a massive wave that crushed the record for the tallest in history. The wave was 62.3 feet, or 19 meters, tall. For context, that eq
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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),