M 4.9 in Solomon Islands on 22 Sep 2017 23:25 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 1122109
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 37.28 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.7533 , 159.6233
Event Date: 22 Sep 2017 23:25 UTC
23 Sep 2017 10:25 Local
Exposed Population:
About 24000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Sep 2017 23:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000ateh Scaled population (vector) 4.28  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0.44  
  INFORM_normalised 1.18  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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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),