M 5.5 in Solomon Islands on 18 Mar 2020 05:31 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 1210484
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -11.0485 , 164.4228
Event Date: 18 Mar 2020 05:31 UTC
18 Mar 2020 16:31 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Mar 2020 07:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us60008hml 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: 2 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Solomon Islands travel adviceThu, 19 Mar 2020 23:38:00 +0100.

There is an ongoing outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) in China, some other countries in the region and elsewhere. The Solomon Islands authorities have introduced a number of precautionary measures. See Health The Government of Australia ha
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Solomon Islands travel adviceThu, 27 Feb 2020 16:55:00 +0100.

There is an ongoing outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) in China, some other countries in the region and elsewhere. The Solomon Islands authorities have introduced a number of precautionary measures. See Health All travellers, with effect fr
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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),