M 6.6 in Solomon Islands on 10 Aug 2015 04:12 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 1062662
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.6M
Depth: 15 Km
Lat/Lon: -9.3208 , 158.0092
Event Date: 10 Aug 2015 04:12 UTC
10 Aug 2015 15:12 Local
Exposed Population: About 31000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Aug 2015 23:36 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 0.11m  
  C2 earthquake n.a      
  Country Vulnerability n.a      
  INFORM_normalised n.a      
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 206 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

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Venezuelan lake is hit by lightning THOUSANDS of times an hourFri, 14 Aug 2015 03:33:00 +0200.

There are several theories to explain the continuous storms including high winds which sweep across the lake forming clouds when they meet the Andean mountains. Others link it to the boggy marshes releasing methane gas. The topography of th
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Venezuelan lake is hit by lightning THOUSANDS of times an hourFri, 14 Aug 2015 03:32:00 +0200.

There are several theories to explain the continuous storms including high winds which sweep across the lake forming clouds when they meet the Andean mountains. Others link it to the boggy marshes releasing methane gas. The topography of th
...(more)
Un terremoto de magnitud 5,0 sacude la región de FukushimaFri, 14 Aug 2015 02:33:00 +0200.

Un sismo de magnitud 5,0 se ha registrado este jueves a las 13.34 (UTC) a unos 49 kilómetros al sureste de la ciudad japonesa de Namie, del Distrito de Futaba, Fukushima, que hace cuatro años hubo un grave accidente nuclear a causa de un te
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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 (88), (5), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),