M 4.8 in Solomon Is. on 10 May 2015 11:57 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 1054409
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -9.8389 , 160.0895
Event Date: 10 May 2015 11:57 UTC
10 May 2015 22:57 Local
Exposed Population:
168081 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 May 2015 12:27 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 560 | About casualties: 18 | Last hour: 0

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Mangrovie: le «radici del mare» protette dalle donne dei villaggiThu, 14 May 2015 11:01:00 +0200.

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Iran’s Ashourzadeh wins world taekwondo titleThu, 14 May 2015 08:50:00 +0200.

The 18-year-old Iranian, who made a spectacular comeback against Russia’s hopeful Ruslan Poiseev in the semifinal, snatched the glittering gold with an 8-3 win over Belgium's Si Mohammed Ketbi in the final showdown. Ketbi attended the prest
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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),