Overall Green Earthquake alert in Solomon Islands on 01 Feb 2017 16:16 UTC

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M 4.6 in Solomon Islands on 01 Feb 2017 16:16 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 1104603
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	Km
Lat/Lon:	-11.01 , 162.008
Event Date:	01 Feb 2017 16:16 UTC 02 Feb 2017 03:16 Local
Exposed Population:	About 30000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	02 Feb 2017 04:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us20008fsp	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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