M 5.8 in Solomon Is. on 09 Jan 2014 06:39 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 1022715
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 47.93 Km
Lat/Lon: -11.5972 , 166.4566
Event Date: 09 Jan 2014 06:39 UTC
09 Jan 2014 17:39 Local
Exposed Population:
About 5912 people within 100km
Inserted at: 09 Jan 2014 07:02 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),