Overall Green Earthquake alert in Solomon Is. on 06 Oct 2013 23:00 UTC

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M 4.8 in Solomon Is. on 06 Oct 2013 23:00 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 1008051
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	75.7 Km
Lat/Lon:	-11.32 , 166.37
Event Date:	06 Oct 2013 23:00 UTC 07 Oct 2013 10:00 Local
Exposed Population:	About 22730 people within 100km
Inserted at:	06 Oct 2013 23:38 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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