M 5.4 in Solomon Is. on 16 Dec 2019 16:46 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 1198466
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 69.07 Km
Lat/Lon: -8.4023 , 159.0148
Event Date: 16 Dec 2019 16:46 UTC
17 Dec 2019 03:46 Local
Exposed Population: About 42000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Dec 2019 17:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us60006s7q Scaled population (raster) 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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Latest media headlines

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Solomon Islands travel adviceThu, 19 Dec 2019 10:51:00 +0100.

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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),