M 5.8 in Solomon Islands on 29 Mar 2018 18:51 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 1138887
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -9.4187 , 159.5609
Event Date: 29 Mar 2018 18:51 UTC
30 Mar 2018 05:51 Local
Exposed Population: About 8000 people in MMI
190000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Mar 2018 19:10 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000day0 Scaled population (vector) 0.9  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.18  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 51 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

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UNDP Sri Lanka to conduct Tsunami Drills in schoolsSun, 01 Apr 2018 08:25:00 +0200.

The UNDP Country Offices across Asia and the Pacific region are implementing a program funded by the supported by the Government of Japan to strengthen school preparedness for tsunamis in Asia and the Pacific and five Sri Lankan schools wil
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UNDP Sri Lanka to conduct Tsunami drills in schoolsSat, 31 Mar 2018 21:04:00 +0200.

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People in PNG's East New Britain woken by big quakeSat, 31 Mar 2018 04:30:00 +0200.

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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),