M 4.7 in Solomon Islands on 23 Jan 2017 12:03 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 1103879
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: -10.8316 , 161.3797
Event Date: 23 Jan 2017 12:03 UTC
23 Jan 2017 23:03 Local
Exposed Population:
About 35000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Jan 2017 12:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007uz0 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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Santa Olga, el pueblo que han devorado las llamas en la ola de incendi ... Fri, 27 Jan 2017 10:17:00 +0100.

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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),