M 4.9 in Solomon Islands on 29 Dec 2020 06:13 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 1249467
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 94.3 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.6055 , 154.5784
Event Date: 29 Dec 2020 06:13 UTC
29 Dec 2020 16:13 Local
Exposed Population:
About 32000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Dec 2020 06:34 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000d3x5 Scaled population (vector) 3.67  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
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Latest media headlines

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Moderate mag. 5.0 earthquake - Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands, on ... Mon, 28 Dec 2020 21:44:00 +0100.

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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), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),