M 4.8 in Solomon Islands on 04 Jan 2014 02:58 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 1022191
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 9.78 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.9542 , 163.7229
Event Date: 04 Jan 2014 02:58 UTC
04 Jan 2014 13:58 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Jan 2014 03:19 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  
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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 (40), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),