M 4.6 in Solomon Is. on 27 Nov 2014 04:51 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 1043885
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 285.5 Km
Lat/Lon: -12.31 , 167.1
Event Date: 27 Nov 2014 04:51 UTC
27 Nov 2014 15:51 Local
Exposed Population:
About 4765 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Nov 2014 05:15 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
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: 208 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

Africa: View On Poverty - Turning Mobiles Into Emergency ToolsMon, 01 Dec 2014 03:04:00 +0100.

The strongest recorded storm to ever hit land slammed into the Philippines at 195 miles per hour just over a year ago, on 8 November 2013. As a recent Guardian photo essay shows , the communities on the islands are now beginning to rebuild.
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FOCUS: Campaign pledges focus on disaster reduction, short on care for ... Mon, 01 Dec 2014 02:45:00 +0100.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe touts his "Abenomics" economic policy package as putting Japan on a path to a long-sought exit from deflation, and is now seeking a fresh electoral mandate to stay the course. But more than three and a half years s
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European Research Council: The all too real search for an invisibility ... Mon, 01 Dec 2014 01:36:00 +0100.

The art deco splendour of the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels will provide the suitably grand setting for the researchers, who have all received millions of euros in funding from the European Research Council, to reveal their progress tow
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Indian Ocean tsunami: 10 years onSun, 30 Nov 2014 23:06:00 +0100.

Where were you on 26 December 2004, the day a 9.1-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Banda Aceh, Indonesia triggered a deadly tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people? Ten years on from the disaster, the BBC is asking for your memori
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),