M 5.9 in Solomon Islands on 20 Dec 2016 12:33 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 1101376
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 12.36 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.1522 , 160.9244
Event Date: 20 Dec 2016 12:33 UTC
20 Dec 2016 23:33 Local
Exposed Population: About 83000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Dec 2016 12:57 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us200082tk 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: 598 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

تسونامي الهجرة لن يتوقف والمقاربة الأمنية الأوروبية فاشلةSat, 24 Dec 2016 12:10:00 +0100.

استيقظ أمادو تيام الشاب السنغالي الذي لم يتجاوز الـ 17 ربيعاً ككل يوم مع خيوط الفجر الأولى، حيث يقيم في حي «بات دوا» (الضاحية الجنوبية للعاصمة السنغالية) وحمل حقيبته المصنوعة يدوياً على ظهره قبل أن يستقل سيارة نقل عمومي ويتوجه إلى دكار ليجو
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Os pivôs deste Natal: "Quem corre por gosto não cansa"Sat, 24 Dec 2016 11:41:00 +0100.

Cristina Esteves, Carlos Daniel, Rodrigo Guedes de Carvalho, Bento Rodrigues, Judite Sousa e Cristina Reyna assumem os noticiários da noite de consoada e almoço de Natal. Mesmo com os avanços tecnológicos e as novas plataformas de consumo d
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Kommentar | Kriege, Terrorismus und Tote: Wie kann man jetzt Weihnacht ... Sat, 24 Dec 2016 10:09:00 +0100.

Wenige Tage vor Heiligabend hat der Terroranschlag auf einen Berliner Weihnachtsmarkt Deutschland erschüttert. Wie kann man in diesen Zeiten Weihnachten feiern? SWR-Redakteur Jörg Vins hat eine Antwort darauf. Wir wussten ja immer, dass ei
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Solomon Islands: Solomon Island: Earthquake Emergency Plan of Action ( ... Sat, 24 Dec 2016 09:09:00 +0100.

A. Situation analysis. Description of the disaster. An earthquake of magnitude 7.8 occurred at 4.39 am on 9 December 2016 near 62km west-south-west of Kirakira in Makira Province, Solomon Islands. More than 40 aftershocks have followed and
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),