M 5.6 in Solomon Islands on 20 Dec 2016 20:07 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 1101428
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 13.97 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.1013 , 160.8021
Event Date: 20 Dec 2016 20:07 UTC
21 Dec 2016 07:07 Local
Exposed Population: About 90000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Dec 2016 20:30 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007lix 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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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),