M 5.2 in Solomon Islands on 20 Mar 2017 04:24 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 1108221
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -8.1089 , 161.0101
Event Date: 20 Mar 2017 04:24 UTC
20 Mar 2017 15:24 Local
Exposed Population:
About 94000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Mar 2017 03:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us20008t93 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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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),