M 5 in Solomon Islands on 10 Dec 2016 20:08 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 1100570
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 35.25 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.4967 , 161.3355
Event Date: 10 Dec 2016 20:08 UTC
11 Dec 2016 07:08 Local
Exposed Population:
About 44485 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Dec 2016 20:46 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20007zug 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.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 643 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

Cómo los terremotos han sacudido la Tierra en los últimos 15 añosWed, 14 Dec 2016 18:49:00 +0100.

En los últimos 15 años la Tierra ha sido sacudida por algunos de los terremotos más devastadores desde que se lleva registro. En 2004 un sismo de magnitud 9,1 en la escala de Richter dio pie a un devastador tsunami que arrasó la línea coste
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Ontario Clean Air Alliance, residents ask council to support immediate ... Wed, 14 Dec 2016 18:34:00 +0100.

PICKERING A group of people who spoke before council Monday would like to see the Pickering nuclear station dismantled as soon as possible. The Ontario Clean Air Alliance (OCAA) requested the City of Pickering ask the provincial government
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Voir Cour d’Assises : Un jeune homme de 25 ans encourt 15 ans de priso ... Wed, 14 Dec 2016 18:10:00 +0100.

Les faits remontent au 29 novembre 2011, à Tomblaine, Jacques Lacroix, un retraité de 66 ans est pris à partie par un jeune homme qui l’accuse d’avoir rayé sa voiture. L’altercation se termine par le décès du retraité. Que s’est-il vraiment
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After 30 years of service, ZAKA holds its first telethonWed, 14 Dec 2016 17:46:00 +0100.

The ZAKA International Rescue Unit, an emergency first-response NGO dedicated to life-saving search and rescue missions in Israel and abroad, is holding its first telethon Thursday during an all-day broadcast on Channel 2 to mark its 30th a
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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),