M 4.9 in Solomon Islands on 09 Apr 2016 09:59 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 1084012
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -9.2609 , 159.0486
Event Date: 09 Apr 2016 09:59 UTC
09 Apr 2016 20:59 Local
Exposed Population:
About 51172 people within 100km
Inserted at: 09 Apr 2016 10:18 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  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

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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),