M 4.9 in Solomon Islands on 19 May 2017 14:31 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 1113366
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 19 Km
Lat/Lon: -9.2971 , 158.8992
Event Date: 19 May 2017 14:31 UTC
20 May 2017 01:31 Local
Exposed Population:
About 30000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 May 2017 14:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008tjx Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Professor de filosofia A atual crise política foi provocada por um jornalista que propagou uma notícia "bomba", segundo a qual o presidente Temer teria dado a sua anuência a pagamentos efetuados pelo "empresário" Joesley Batista ao ex-deput
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),