Overall Green Earthquake alert in Solomon Islands on 04 Mar 2017 02:58 UTC

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M 5.9 in Solomon Islands on 04 Mar 2017 02:58 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 1106969
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.9M
Depth:	53.72 Km
Lat/Lon:	-7.3527 , 155.7048
Event Date:	04 Mar 2017 02:58 UTC 04 Mar 2017 13:58 Local
Exposed Population:	About 33000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	04 Mar 2017 03:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	7.6 (Papua New Guinea)
INFORM Coping capacity list:	Papua New Guinea= 7.6; Solomon Is.= 6.6

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us100086x7	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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