M 5.6 in Solomon Is. on 30 Oct 2020 11:10 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 1241503
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 14.11 Km
Lat/Lon: -8.8151 , 161.0729
Event Date: 30 Oct 2020 11:10 UTC
30 Oct 2020 22:10 Local
Exposed Population: About 6000 people in MMI
170000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Oct 2020 13:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000c7xt 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

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Powerful quake hits off Solomon IslandsTue, 13 Oct 2020 12:48:00 +0200.

The quake struck at a depth of 4.0 kilometres, some 170 kilometres north-northeast of the capital city Honiara, the USGS said. No tsunami warning was issued. The Solomon Islands are part of the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, a zone of tectonic act
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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),