M 7 in Solomon Islands on 18 Jul 2015 02:27 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 1060655
Earthquake Magnitude: 7.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.4436 , 165.1715
Event Date: 18 Jul 2015 02:27 UTC
18 Jul 2015 13:27 Local
Exposed Population: About 15000 people in MMI
About 16000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Jul 2015 03:27 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake n.a Max wave realtime 0.33m  
  C2 earthquake n.a      
  Country Vulnerability n.a      
  INFORM_normalised n.a      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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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 (88), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), (3), INFORM (4),