M 5.8 in Solomon Islands on 19 Jun 2019 23:15 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 1182879
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 20.89 Km
Lat/Lon: -12.6684 , 166.1893
Event Date: 19 Jun 2019 23:15 UTC
20 Jun 2019 10:15 Local
Exposed Population: About 700 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Jun 2019 23:50 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us600043e4 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 12 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

World: Partnership for Strengthening School Preparedness for Tsunami i ... Thu, 13 Jun 2019 16:26:00 +0200.

The Sub-Regional Lessons Learnt and Work Planning Meeting of the Phase II of the “Partnerships for Strengthening School Preparedness for Tsunami in Asia and the Pacific” project was held in Nadi, Fiji, on 28th – 29th May 2019. It was organi
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Partnership for Strengthening School Preparedness for Tsunami in Asia ... Thu, 13 Jun 2019 05:22:00 +0200.

The Sub-Regional Lessons Learnt and Work Planning Meeting of the Phase II of the ““Partnerships for Strengthening School Preparedness for Tsunami in Asia and the Pacific” project was held in Nadi, Fiji, on 28th – 29th May 2019. It was organ
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Foreign officials meet to discuss disaster managementWed, 12 Jun 2019 20:04:00 +0200.

High-ranking officials from several Southeast Asian and Pacific countries this week met in Taipei to discuss disaster mitigation. The Solomon Islands — one of Taiwan’s 17 diplomatic allies — sent several officials to a conference at Nationa
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Earthquakes sinking American SamoaTue, 11 Jun 2019 03:46:00 +0200.

New research suggest a massive earthquake is responsible for big sea level rise on American Samoa. The 2009 earthquake may have dragged the island nation up to 18 centimetres deeper into the earth. The team from ABC News brings you Pacific
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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),