M 4.7 in Solomon Islands on 16 Sep 2020 06:48 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 1235583
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 39.73 Km
Lat/Lon: -8.6456 , 160.2053
Event Date: 16 Sep 2020 06:48 UTC
16 Sep 2020 17:48 Local
Exposed Population:
300000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Sep 2020 07:10 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000bnv7 Scaled population (vector) 4.98  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0.44  
  INFORM_normalised 1.18  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 7 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Belt of Fire, the place where most earthquakes are born in the worldWed, 16 Sep 2020 05:00:00 +0200.

The Belt of Fire is a long tectonic chain of approximately 40 thousand kilometers that runs below the coasts of America, Asia and the Pacific Ocean. This region has some of the subduction zones (where one tectonic plate sinks under another)
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06 September 2020 - Strong Earthquake in Vanuatu Islands on 06 Septemb ... Sun, 06 Sep 2020 05:52:00 +0200.

JABATAN METEOROLOGI MALAYSIA KEMENTERIAN ALAM SEKITAR DAN AIR JALAN SULTAN Telefon : 603-7967 8000 46667 PETALING JAYA Faksimili : 603-7957 8052 SELANGOR DARUL EHSAN E-mel : seismo@met.gov.my MALAYSIA Laman Web : www.met.gov.my JMM/POCGN(O)
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Further tsunami detection buoys deployedMon, 31 Aug 2020 01:50:00 +0200.

Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters and Civil Defence Minister Peeni Henare welcome the deployment of five more DART (Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami) buoys. "We are pleased to deliver a lifesaving line of defence, built
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MIL-OSI New Zealand: Further tsunami detection buoys deployedMon, 31 Aug 2020 01:35:00 +0200.

Source: New Zealand Government. Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters and Civil Defence Minister Peeni Henare welcome the deployment of five more DART (Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami) buoys. “We are pleased to deliver a li
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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),