M 5.2 in Solomon Is. on 17 Jun 2016 21:26 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 1088360
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 56.81 Km
Lat/Lon: -11.5902 , 166.3349
Event Date: 17 Jun 2016 21:26 UTC
18 Jun 2016 08:26 Local
Exposed Population:
About 6097 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Jun 2016 21:45 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20006567 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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Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 283 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

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"Warsztaty umierania". Rzecz o zagrożonej JaponiiTue, 21 Jun 2016 19:58:00 +0200.

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Kuzijengea nchi uwezo ni muhimu kukabiliana na Tsunami:IOCTue, 21 Jun 2016 19:29:00 +0200.

Suala la kuzijengea nchi uwezo hasa katika mifumo ya kupasha habari ni muhimu saana katika kukabiliana na kujiandaa na Tsunami. Hayo yamesemwa na Arito Kordia mkuu wa kituo cha Tsunami cha bahari ya Hindi cha shirika la Umoja wa mataifa la
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Segundo Ejercicio Nacional de Protección y Salvaguarda de la Vida Ante ... Tue, 21 Jun 2016 19:17:00 +0200.

A las 9 de la mañana en punto inicio este martes el segundo ejercicio Nacional de Protección y Salvaguarda de la Vida ante Múltiples Amenazas de la Naturaleza, en el que participaron millares de personas en los 4 puntos cardinales del país.
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),