Overall Green Earthquake alert in Solomon Islands on 27 Mar 2017 02:41 UTC

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M 5 in Solomon Islands on 27 Mar 2017 02:41 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 1108752
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.0M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-11.543 , 161.8879
Event Date:	27 Mar 2017 02:41 UTC 27 Mar 2017 13:41 Local
Exposed Population:	About 9000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	27 Mar 2017 03:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us20008ux9	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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