M 5.3 in Solomon Islands on 14 Dec 2016 03:24 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 1100831
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.4843 , 161.3969
Event Date: 14 Dec 2016 03:24 UTC
14 Dec 2016 14:24 Local
Exposed Population:
About 49334 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Dec 2016 03:40 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us200080ml 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 1356 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

After the quakeSun, 18 Dec 2016 02:54:00 +0100.

There's an old saying that Thailand is a paradise on the blue planet. A place of natural beauty and wonder, one could easily believe that Mother Nature is kind to the people here. But in the past few years, mounting cases of natural disaste
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PNG provinces assess impacts of 7.9 quakeSun, 18 Dec 2016 02:03:00 +0100.

Provincial administrations in New Ireland and New Britain of Papua New Guinea are assessing impacts of last night's big earthquake. A magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck about 50 kilometres east of Taron, on the south eastern coast of New Irela
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Terremoto en Papúa Nueva Guinea: Levantan alerta de tsunamiSun, 18 Dec 2016 02:00:00 +0100.

Un terremoto de magnitud 7,9 en las costas de Papúa Nueva Guinea hizo temer este sábado un tsunami pero luego la alerta fue levantada, anunció el Centro de Alerta de Tsunamis del Pacífico (PTWC, por sus siglas en inglés). El PTWC había est
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زلزال بقوة 8 درجات يضرب سواحل بابوا غينيا الجديدة.Sun, 18 Dec 2016 02:00:00 +0100.

ضرب زلزال بقوة 8 درجات على مقياس ريختر أمس السبت سواحل بابوا غينيا الجديدة، وفق ما أعلنت هيئة المسح الجيولوجي الأمريكية. ووقع الزلزال على بعد 60 كيلومترا شرق تارون في جزيرة نيو أيرلندا ، على عمق 73.4 كيلومترا. ودفعت قوة الزلزال مركز الإنذار
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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),