M 4.9 in Solomon Islands on 06 Jul 2016 19:41 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 1089468
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.6301 , 155.059
Event Date: 06 Jul 2016 19:41 UTC
07 Jul 2016 05:41 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Jul 2016 21:09 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100061f2 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 202 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Quake-affected voters hope for swift reconstructionSun, 10 Jul 2016 19:19:00 +0200.

Voters in areas hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan or April's massive quakes in southwestern Japan expressed hope Sunday for swift reconstruction efforts to be made by the government as they cast ballots in a House
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Fort McMurray's genial landfill manager surfs tsunami of wildfire wast ... Sun, 10 Jul 2016 16:07:00 +0200.

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - When you're pounded with the big waves, you'd better learn to surf. "The demolition material is going to come in pretty much in a tsunami-like effect," says Fred Thompson-Brown, manager of Fort McMurray's landfill. "W
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Fort McMurray's genial landfill manager surfs tsunami of wildfire wast ... Sun, 10 Jul 2016 16:03:00 +0200.

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — When you're pounded with the big waves, you'd better learn to surf. "The demolition material is going to come in pretty much in a tsunami-like effect," says Fred Thompson-Brown, manager of Fort McMurray's landfill. "W
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Municipio de Filandia y su granizada histórica de hace veinte añosSun, 10 Jul 2016 07:19:00 +0200.

El 10 de julio de 1996, a las 4 p.m., el granizo destruyó varias casas de su pequeña estructura urbana. Los pueblos del mundo se recuerdan por sus logros y sus triunfos, su gente y por sus desastres. Del imaginario colectivo será difícil ol
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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),