M 5.1 in Solomon Islands on 18 Mar 2017 02:17 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 1108096
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 34.88 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.9914 , 160.9296
Event Date: 18 Mar 2017 02:17 UTC
18 Mar 2017 13:17 Local
Exposed Population:
About 82000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Mar 2017 02:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008sxc Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 321 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

6.4-magnitude quake strikes off Indonesia's Bali, no tsunami alert iss ... Wed, 22 Mar 2017 01:50:00 +0100.

JAKARTA, March 22 (Xinhua) -- A 6.4-magnitude earthquake jolted the Bali resort Island in central Indonesia earlier Wednesday, but was not potential for a tsunami, the meteorology and geophysics agency said. The quake jolted at 6:10 a.m. Ja
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Powerful quake strikes off Indonesia's Bali, no tsunami warning issuedWed, 22 Mar 2017 01:50:00 +0100.

JAKARTA, March 22 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake measuring 6.4 magnitude jolted Bali resort island of central Indonesia Wednesday, but was not potential for tsunami, the meteorology and geophysics agency official told Xinhua via phone.
Tsnunami Simulation ExerciseWed, 22 Mar 2017 01:39:00 +0100.

Saint Lucia joined Caribbean and Latin American nations in testing the region’s tsunami warning and detection systems. On March 21st, the countries participated in a massive tsunami drill, referred to as Carib Wave 2017. Local emergency off
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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),