Overall Green Earthquake alert in Solomon Islands on 08 Feb 2013 15:26 UTC

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M 7 in Solomon Islands on 08 Feb 2013 15:26 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 122546
Earthquake Magnitude:	7.0M
Depth:	27 Km
Lat/Lon:	-10.91 , 165.964
Event Date:	08 Feb 2013 15:26 UTC 09 Feb 2013 02:26 Local
Exposed Population:	About 20149 people within 100km
Inserted at:	08 Feb 2013 15:42 UTC

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	Earthquake		Tsunami		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0.2		0.5
usc000f40j	Scaled population (vector)	n.a	Max wave scenario	0m
	C1 earthquake	n.a	Max wave realtime	0.24m
	C2 earthquake	n.a
	Country Vulnerability	n.a
	INFORM_normalised	n.a

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