M 6.9 in Solomon Islands on 09 Dec 2016 19:10 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 1100475
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.9M
Depth: 20.59 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.7298 , 161.107
Event Date: 09 Dec 2016 19:10 UTC
10 Dec 2016 06:10 Local
Exposed Population: About 25000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 09 Dec 2016 20:39 UTC
Maximum Wave Height observed: 0.05 m

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0.2 0.5
us20007zlq Scaled population (vector) n.a Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake n.a Max wave realtime 0.24m  
  C2 earthquake n.a      
  Country Vulnerability n.a      
  INFORM_normalised n.a      
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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 (88), (5), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),