M 6 in Solomon Islands on 29 Jan 2020 13:49 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 1204103
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 86.63 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.3749 , 161.2802
Event Date: 29 Jan 2020 13:49 UTC
30 Jan 2020 00:49 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI V
About 66000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Jan 2020 15:52 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us60007j2w 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 21 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Solomon Islands travel adviceSat, 01 Feb 2020 13:49:00 +0100.

There is an ongoing outbreak of coronavirus. The virus originated in Wuhan City, Hubei Province but cases have been confirmed in other parts of China and in some countries in the region. The Solomon Islands authorities will apply risk-based
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Earthquakes today: Jamaica, Papua New Guinea and Greece hit by huge qu ... Wed, 29 Jan 2020 22:02:00 +0100.

One area still reeling from a huge earthquake is Turkey which on Friday, January 24 was hit by a magnitude-6.7 quake. This killed at least 38 people and injured more than 1,600 when it hit 21 miles from Elazig. Buildings crumbled into rubbl
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Solomon Islands travel adviceWed, 29 Jan 2020 07:07:00 +0100.

There is an ongoing outbreak of coronavirus in China and elsewhere in the region. See Health All travellers, with effect from 28 December 2019, will be required to complete a Travellers Health Declaration Card on arrival. You may also be re
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Magnitude-7.7 earthquake jolts Caribbean, sparks tsunami fears through ... Wed, 29 Jan 2020 02:09:00 +0100.

A powerful earthquake struck the Caribbean on Tuesday afternoon, shaking parts of Jamaica and Cuba shortly after 2 p.m. and raising fears of a dangerous tsunami. The earthquake was originally rated a 7.3 by the U.S. Geological Survey but wa
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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),