Overall Green Earthquake in Solomon Is. on 17 Dec 2013 14:16 UTC

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M 5.2 in Solomon Is. on 17 Dec 2013 14:16 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 1020480
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.2M
Depth:	101.93 Km
Lat/Lon:	-10.29 , 161.16
Event Date:	17 Dec 2013 14:16 UTC 18 Dec 2013 01:16 Local
Exposed Population:	About 70278 people within 100km
Inserted at:	17 Dec 2013 15:00 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	n.a		n.a
	Scaled population (vector)	n.a
	C1 earthquake	n.a
	C2 earthquake	n.a
	Country Vulnerability	n.a
	INFORM_normalised	n.a

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