M 5.9 in Solomon Islands on 04 Mar 2017 02:58 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 1106969
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 53.72 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.3527 , 155.7048
Event Date: 04 Mar 2017 02:58 UTC
04 Mar 2017 13:58 Local
Exposed Population: About 33000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Mar 2017 03:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Papua New Guinea= 7.6; Solomon Is.= 6.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100086x7 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),