M 5 in Kermadec Islands Region on 14 Dec 2016 09:16 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 1100845
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -31.7505 , -176.1898
Event Date: 14 Dec 2016 09:16 UTC
13 Dec 2016 21:16 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Dec 2016 09:41 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us200080pe 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 205 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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SYDNEY, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale jolted 83 km off Kirakira, Solomon Islands on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said. The earthquake, which struck at 05:46:25 UTC, was initially determine
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Third strong earthquake in two weeks hits off Solomon IslandsSun, 18 Dec 2016 08:28:00 +0100.

Sydney: AFP On Sunday, a 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the Solomon Islands, the US Geological Survey said, the third strong tremor off the Pacific nation in less than two weeks. The quake hit at 4.46 pm (1116 IST) at a depth of 39 kil
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Sismo de magnitude 6 abala Ilhas Salomão, no oceano PacíficoSun, 18 Dec 2016 08:26:00 +0100.

Um sismo de magnitude 6 foi hoje registado no oceano Pacífico, a leste das Ilhas Salomão, sem que as autoridades tenham reportado no imediato a existência de vítimas ou danos materiais. O Centro de Alertas de Tsunami do Pacífico não emitiu
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Solomon Islands struck by strong earthquakeSun, 18 Dec 2016 08:23:00 +0100.

SYDNEY， Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale jolted 83 km off Kirakira， Solomon Islands on Sunday， the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said. The earthquake， which struck at 05:46:25 UTC， was initially determine
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),