Overall Green Earthquake alert in Solomon Is. on 04 Mar 2013 17:32 UTC

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M 4.8 in Solomon Is. on 04 Mar 2013 17:32 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 123093
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	Km
Lat/Lon:	-10.8515 , 165.741
Event Date:	04 Mar 2013 17:32 UTC 05 Mar 2013 04:32 Local
Exposed Population:	About 21000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	04 Mar 2013 23:43 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.5		0.5
usc000ffx5	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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