Overall Green Earthquake alert in Solomon Islands on 01 May 2014 19:23 UTC

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M 4.8 in Solomon Islands on 01 May 2014 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 1030863
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	81.26 Km
Lat/Lon:	-9.6121 , 161.5363
Event Date:	01 May 2014 19:23 UTC 02 May 2014 06:23 Local
Exposed Population:	122775 people within 100km
Inserted at:	01 May 2014 23:25 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	-0.9		-0.9
	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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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