M 5.4 in Solomon Islands on 22 Mar 2019 14:52 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 1174140
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 50.79 Km
Lat/Lon: -11.391 , 162.5047
Event Date: 22 Mar 2019 14:52 UTC
23 Mar 2019 01:52 Local
Exposed Population: About 6000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Mar 2019 15:11 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000jk9s Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.18  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 3 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Pacific ReviewFri, 22 Mar 2019 23:06:00 +0100.

In this edition: No free ride for Solomon Islands' next batch of MPs, as tax is reimposed on their salaries. The chocolate growers of Bougainville on the look out for niche markets in Australia and beyond. And the 10 year old "wonderboy" wh
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Pacific ReviewFri, 15 Mar 2019 22:45:00 +0100.

In this edition: We look at what's at stake for the people of Bougainville when they go to the polls to vote on independence later this year. The Vanuatu government has pledged to ban disposable nappies to reduce plastic waste, but can it b
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President to visit three Pacific alliesTue, 12 Mar 2019 18:39:00 +0100.

President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) is to embark on an eight-day state visit to three of Taiwan’s diplomatic allies in the Pacific next week to exchange experiences about democratization and sustainable development, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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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.
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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),