M 5.1 in Solomon Islands on 10 Dec 2016 12:17 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 1100530
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 26.95 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.3657 , 161.248
Event Date: 10 Dec 2016 12:17 UTC
10 Dec 2016 23:17 Local
Exposed Population:
About 56183 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Dec 2016 12:40 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20007zsd 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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Meteo assessment
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 666 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

Neighbors provide aid to quake victimsWed, 14 Dec 2016 11:48:00 +0100.

China, Australia and Singapore are among members of the international community that have contributed to help relieve the impact of last week’s earthquake in Aceh. The Chinese Red Cross provided US$100,000 worth of humanitarian aid in cash
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Biggest wave EVER RECORDED spotted off British coastWed, 14 Dec 2016 10:29:00 +0100.

GETTY Joey Millar The biggest wave ever recorded has been spotted off the British coast The 62-foot rogue wave, which occurred in the Atlantic Ocean between the north coast of Scotland and Iceland, is the highest ever recorded. An electroni
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Putin's dog gives Japanese journalists an earful 1 HRWed, 14 Dec 2016 09:40:00 +0100.

(CNN) - A big, barking dog can be intimidating at the best of times. Maybe even more so when it's standing next to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Two Japanese journalists grimaced as Putin brought his dog Yume into the room before an int
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29 mins ago Putin's dog gives Japanese journalists an earful A big, ba ... Wed, 14 Dec 2016 09:14:00 +0100.

(CNN) A big, barking dog can be intimidating at the best of times. Maybe even more so when it's standing next to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Two Japanese journalists grimaced as Putin brought his dog Yume into the room before an inter
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),