M 5.1 in Solomon Islands on 30 Apr 2021 05:18 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 1266937
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 63.44 Km
Lat/Lon: -11.8973 , 166.3604
Event Date: 30 Apr 2021 05:18 UTC
30 Apr 2021 16:18 Local
Exposed Population:
About 3000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Apr 2021 05:35 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000dyv7 Scaled population (vector) 3.2  
  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

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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),