M 5 in Solomon Islands on 04 Apr 2020 12:11 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 1212804
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 59.75 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.3439 , 156.1651
Event Date: 04 Apr 2020 12:11 UTC
04 Apr 2020 23:11 Local
Exposed Population:
About 58000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Apr 2020 12:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Papua New Guinea= 7.6; Solomon Is.= 6.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70008nlk Scaled population (vector) 4.23  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 5 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Religious calendarsTue, 31 Mar 2020 08:17:00 +0200.

31 March 2020 (MIA) Macedonian Orthodox Church Calendar. St. Cyril, Archbishop of Jerusalem. Born in Jerusalem in the time of Constantine the Great, he died in 386, in the time of Theodosius the Great. He was ordained priest in 346, and in
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Solomon Islands travel adviceSat, 28 Mar 2020 05:27:00 +0100.

Effective 23 March, all non-citizens of Solomon Islands are not permitted to enter. British Nationals attempting to travel to Solomon Islands will not be able to enter. See Entry requirements Mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria and deng
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Emergency TelecommunicationsWed, 25 Mar 2020 04:36:00 +0100.

Population growth, rapid urbanization and climate change are contributing to a growing number of communities and people around the world becoming more vulnerable to extreme weather events and natural disasters that pose risks of death, dest
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Solomon Islands travel adviceMon, 23 Mar 2020 20:38:00 +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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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),