M 4.8 in Solomon Islands on 13 Jun 2016 10:17 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 1088107
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 57.07 Km
Lat/Lon: -8.7437 , 160.5462
Event Date: 13 Jun 2016 10:17 UTC
13 Jun 2016 21:17 Local
Exposed Population:
240003 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Jun 2016 11:27 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000642a 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: 352 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),