M 6.8 in Solomon Is. on 22 May 2015 23:59 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 1055583
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -11.1571 , 163.1936
Event Date: 22 May 2015 23:59 UTC
23 May 2015 10:59 Local
Exposed Population:
About 2027 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 May 2015 00:19 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0.1 0.5
Scaled population (vector) n.a Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake n.a Max wave realtime 0.09m  
  C2 earthquake n.a      
  Country Vulnerability n.a      
  INFORM_normalised n.a      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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 (81), (5), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), INFORM (4), USGS (2), NOAA (1),