M 5.3 in Solomon Islands on 11 Dec 2016 17:26 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 1100643
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.9501 , 161.57
Event Date: 11 Dec 2016 17:26 UTC
12 Dec 2016 04:26 Local
Exposed Population:
About 41087 people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Dec 2016 17:46 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008002 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 638 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

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Scientists launch frenetic efforts to redeploy wave rider buoyThu, 15 Dec 2016 16:13:00 +0100.

The suspected vandalism of a wave rider buoy (WRB) off the Kollam coast earlier this week has snapped critical data feed for weather forecast and early warning of tsunami, storm surges, and swell waves. Scientists at the Indian National Cen
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Earthquake-insurance prices soar in Washington, and companies hold all ... Thu, 15 Dec 2016 15:55:00 +0100.

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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),