M 5.3 in Solomon Islands on 19 Sep 2014 12:55 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 1040081
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -11.01 , 162.05
Event Date: 19 Sep 2014 12:55 UTC
19 Sep 2014 23:55 Local
Exposed Population:
About 28028 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Sep 2014 13:18 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 163 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

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Dispuesto Vietnam ayudar a provincia japonesa en reconstrucciónTue, 23 Sep 2014 11:50:00 +0200.

Vietnam desea fomentar la cooperación en economía con la provincia nipona de Miyagi y está dispuesto a enviar grupos de jóvenes a Japón para participar en el proceso de reconstrucción nacional, afirmó el embajador acreditado en Tokio, Doan
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Magnitude 5.5 earthquake hits New ZealandTue, 23 Sep 2014 10:52:00 +0200.

An earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale jolted New Zealand's North Island Tuesday, a media report said. The tremor hit the area at 2.41 am, stuff.co.nz reported citing GeoNet that provides ...
Research to the rescue of disaster managementTue, 23 Sep 2014 08:56:00 +0200.

Shobha Shukla and Bobby Ramakant For management of disasters and humanitarian crises, doing something is not enough—but doing the right thing at the right time is. Decision-makers need to know which intervention, actions and strategies woul
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),