M 5.1 in Solomon Islands on 12 Feb 2016 20:56 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 1080525
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 9.2 Km
Lat/Lon: -11.3156 , 162.7673
Event Date: 12 Feb 2016 20:56 UTC
13 Feb 2016 07:56 Local
Exposed Population:
About 10474 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Feb 2016 21:18 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  
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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.
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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),