M 4.5 in Poland on 16 Dec 2016 06:46 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 1101008
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 5.51 Km
Lat/Lon: 51.5937 , 16.1666
Event Date: 16 Dec 2016 06:46 UTC
16 Dec 2016 07:46 Local
Exposed Population:
2286502 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Dec 2016 07:10 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000818i 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: 368 | About casualties: 57 | Last hour: 0

Strong quake strikes near Solomon Islands; no tsunami threatTue, 20 Dec 2016 06:36:00 +0100.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A strong earthquake has struck near the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, but did not trigger a tsunami warning. The magnitude-6.7 quake Tuesday was likely an aftershock of a powerful earthquake that struc
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Magnitude 6.7 earthquake strikes off Solomon islands: USGSTue, 20 Dec 2016 06:36:00 +0100.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7 struck off the Solomon Islands on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the second powerful tremor in the islands to Australia's north in less than two wee
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Strong quake strikes near Solomon Islands; no tsunami threatTue, 20 Dec 2016 06:36:00 +0100.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A strong earthquake has struck near the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, but did not trigger a tsunami warning. The magnitude-6.7 quake Tuesday was likely an aftershock of a powerful earthquake that struck on
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Sismo de magnitud 6.7 se registra en costas de Islas SalomónTue, 20 Dec 2016 06:35:00 +0100.

Sídney, Australia.-Un terremoto magnitud 6.7 se registró el martes frente a las costas de las Islas Salomón, reportó el Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS, por su sigla en inglés), el segundo sismo poderoso que sacude a las islas ub
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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), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),