Overall Green Earthquake alert in Solomon Islands on 30 Jan 2017 14:04 UTC

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M 5.1 in Solomon Islands on 30 Jan 2017 14:04 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 1104410
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.1M
Depth:	54.21 Km
Lat/Lon:	-11.7944 , 166.4393
Event Date:	30 Jan 2017 14:04 UTC 31 Jan 2017 01:04 Local
Exposed Population:	About 5000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	30 Jan 2017 17:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us10007w6e	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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