Overall Green Earthquake alert in Solomon Islands on 06 Feb 2013 13:54 UTC

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M 6 in Solomon Islands on 06 Feb 2013 13:54 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 122424
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.0M
Depth:	10.1 Km
Lat/Lon:	-10.7976 , 166.492
Event Date:	06 Feb 2013 13:54 UTC 07 Feb 2013 00:54 Local
Exposed Population:	About 21221 people within 100km
Inserted at:	06 Feb 2013 15:39 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
usc000f2d8	Scaled population (vector)	n.a
	C1 earthquake	n.a
	C2 earthquake	n.a
	Country Vulnerability	n.a
	INFORM_normalised	n.a

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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),

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