M 5.3 in Solomon Islands on 13 Dec 2016 05:38 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 1100771
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.8637 , 161.2253
Event Date: 13 Dec 2016 05:38 UTC
13 Dec 2016 16:38 Local
Exposed Population:
About 28425 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Dec 2016 05:58 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us200080e8 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Ogasawara, el capitán de las ayudas durante el terremoto de JapónFri, 16 Dec 2016 23:05:00 +0100.

, Endo, centrocampista del Kashima, apeló al “espíritu de la gente de Tohoku”. La región de Tohoku fue el epicentro del brutal terremoto (8,9 en la escala Richter) que devastó Japón el 11 de marzo de 2011. Fallecieron más de 15.000 personas
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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),