M 4.8 in Solomon Islands on 01 Oct 2016 09:37 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 1095048
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 62.91 Km
Lat/Lon: -12.5337 , 166.5245
Event Date: 01 Oct 2016 09:37 UTC
01 Oct 2016 20:37 Local
Exposed Population:
About 1435 people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 Oct 2016 10:15 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006ucs 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: 247 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Declaraciones de Rosario Murillo (04/04/2016) (Texto íntegro)Wed, 05 Oct 2016 09:06:00 +0200.

Hoy lunes 4 de Abril queremos informarles sobre la actividad volcánica… Explosiones en el Volcán Momotombo, la noche del sábado; además, 3 sismos cerca del Volcán que pueden haber sido inducidos por el movimiento de magma debajo del Volcán,
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Tepco: Betreiber von Fukushima-Reaktor fordert RegierungshilfeWed, 05 Oct 2016 08:54:00 +0200.

(sda/reu) Der Betreiber des Katastrophen-Reaktors in Fukushima hat laut einem Medienbericht Hilfe von der japanischen Regierung gefordert, um eine Pleite abzuwenden. Sollten die Stilllegungskosten weiter in die Höhe schiessen, drohe Tepco d
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Tepco calls for government action, sees insolvency risk if clean-up co ... Wed, 05 Oct 2016 08:25:00 +0200.

Tokyo Electric Power Co Holdings , the operator of the power plant at the centre of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, has asked the government to take “structural” action due to the risk of insolvency, Jiji news agency reported on Wednesday.
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Bericht: Fukushima-Betreiber TEPCO fordert RegierungshilfeWed, 05 Oct 2016 08:19:00 +0200.

. Der Betreiber des Katastrophenreaktors in Fukushima hat einem Medienbericht zufolge Hilfe von der japanischen Regierung gefordert, um eine Pleite abzuwenden. Sollten die Stilllegungskosten weiter in die Höhe schießen, drohe Tokyo Electric
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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),