M 5 in Solomon Islands on 28 Jul 2017 00:47 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 1118048
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 73.92 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.3165 , 161.5505
Event Date: 28 Jul 2017 00:47 UTC
28 Jul 2017 11:47 Local
Exposed Population:
About 67000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Jul 2017 01:08 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us2000a210 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 221 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

Grecia:sisma di 5.2, no allerta tsunamiTue, 01 Aug 2017 00:34:00 +0200.

01/08/2017 00:29 Grecia:sisma di 5.2, no allerta tsunami 0.29 Grecia:sisma di 5.2, no allerta tsunami Una scossa di terremoto di magnitudo 5.2 è stata registrata alle 00:29 ora locale (le 23:29 di ieri in Italia) al largo della costa sud de
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هل نتّعظ من دروس التاريخ؟Mon, 31 Jul 2017 23:45:00 +0200.

صحيح أن الله غفور رحيم، وهو عفوّ يحب العفو عنهم إذا أساؤوا أو أذنبوا، ولكنهم إذا تمادوا في عصيانهم وعنادهم، فإن الله عزيز ذو انتقام، وإذا مكر العباد مع الله، فإن الله خير الماكرين.. وسأعطي مثالين على ذلك، أحدهما من التاريخ القديم والثاني من
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Thai tsunami warning system needs maintenanceMon, 31 Jul 2017 23:03:00 +0200.

BANGKOK • Up to 80 per cent of Thailand's tsunami warning system needs maintenance work, the deputy director-general of its disaster prevention department said yesterday, more than a decade after the region was hit by a tsunami that killed
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Moderate Earthquake Hits Sumatra, IndonesiaMon, 31 Jul 2017 19:12:00 +0200.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 31 (Bernama) -- A moderate earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale occurred in Sumatra, Indonesia at 10pm today. The Malaysian Meteorological Department in a statement here said, the epicentre of the quake was 486 k
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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),