Overall Green Earthquake alert in Solomon Is. on 17 Feb 2013 19:23 UTC

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M 5.2 in Solomon Is. on 17 Feb 2013 19:23 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 122776
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.2M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-10.7979 , 165.563
Event Date:	17 Feb 2013 19:23 UTC 18 Feb 2013 06:23 Local
Exposed Population:	About 19000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	17 Feb 2013 19:48 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.5		0.5
usc000f91t	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 (40), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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