M 4.9 in Solomon Is. on 10 Feb 2013 05:50 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 122603
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: -10.7876 , 165.663
Event Date: 10 Feb 2013 05:50 UTC
10 Feb 2013 16:50 Local
Exposed Population:
About 20000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Feb 2013 06:16 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
usc000f4tt Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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),