M 5.2 in Solomon Islands on 08 Dec 2016 20:03 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 1100362
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 47.19 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.8346 , 161.5147
Event Date: 08 Dec 2016 20:03 UTC
09 Dec 2016 07:03 Local
Exposed Population:
About 40578 people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Dec 2016 20:25 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20007zaj 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: 1606 | About casualties: 19 | Last hour: 0

Temblores de 4,9 y 5,1 grados cerca a la zona golpeada por el sismo de ... Mon, 12 Dec 2016 19:49:00 +0100.

Quito, 12 dic (EFE).- Dos sismos de magnitudes 4,9 y 5,1 se registraron hoy frente a las costas de la provincia ecuatoriana de Esmeraldas, una de las afectadas por el terremoto de 7,8 grados en la escala de Richter ocurrido el 16 de abril,
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Temblores magnitud 4,9 y 5,1 frente zona afectada por sismo abril en E ... Mon, 12 Dec 2016 19:47:00 +0100.

Dos sismos de magnitudes 4,9 y 5,1 se registraron hoy frente a las costas de la provincia de Esmeraldas sin que se hayan reportado daños de importancia, informó el Instituto Geofísico (IG). De acuerdo al Instituto, el sismo de magnitud 5,1
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Temblores magnitud 4,9 y 5,1 frente zona afectada por sismo abril en . ... Mon, 12 Dec 2016 19:40:00 +0100.

Dos sismos de magnitudes 4,9 y 5,1 se registraron hoy frente a las costas de la provincia ecuatoriana de Esmeraldas sin que se hayan reportado daños de importancia, informó el Instituto Geofísico (IG). De acuerdo al Instituto, el sismo de
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7000 affected across three provinces by Solomons' quakesMon, 12 Dec 2016 19:35:00 +0100.

About 7000 people across three provinces are reported to have been affected by the recent earthquakes in the Solomon Islands. Disaster authorities said around 200 buildings had been destroyed or damaged in the provinces of Makira & Ulawa, M
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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),