M 4.8 in Solomon Islands on 20 Jan 2021 08:54 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 1252349
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 496.73 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.7266 , 155.051
Event Date: 20 Jan 2021 08:54 UTC
20 Jan 2021 19:54 Local
Exposed Population:
About 89000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Jan 2021 09:14 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000d1lh Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),