M 4.9 in Solomon Islands on 09 Mar 2017 17:20 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 1107415
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 61.64 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.4354 , 161.3395
Event Date: 09 Mar 2017 17:20 UTC
10 Mar 2017 04:20 Local
Exposed Population:
About 52000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 09 Mar 2017 20:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100087y0 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),