M 4.8 in Solomon Islands on 04 Mar 2017 03:50 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 1106972
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 51.08 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.191 , 155.8292
Event Date: 04 Mar 2017 03:50 UTC
04 Mar 2017 14:50 Local
Exposed Population:
About 52000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Mar 2017 04:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Papua New Guinea= 7.6; Solomon Is.= 6.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100086xf Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),