M 4.7 in Solomon Islands on 14 Jan 2019 02:23 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 1167960
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 119.17 Km
Lat/Lon: -12.1624 , 166.6904
Event Date: 14 Jan 2019 02:23 UTC
14 Jan 2019 13:23 Local
Exposed Population:
About 4000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Jan 2019 04:08 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000j3m5 Scaled population (vector) 3.33  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0.44  
  INFORM_normalised 1.18  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 8 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

WESTERN SOLOMONS REBUILDING GIZO HOSPITALMon, 07 Jan 2019 06:19:00 +0100.

Japan funding to repair 2007 tsunami damage. MELBOURNE, Australia (Radio Australia, Feb. 19, 2010) – Work has begun building a new hospital at Gizo in Solomon Islands' Western Province. The old hospital was badly damaged in the 2007 earthqu
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DEATH TOLL TOPS 30, 100 STILL MISSING IN SOLOMONSSun, 06 Jan 2019 00:58:00 +0100.

SYDNEY, Australia (Australian Broadcasting Corp. April 6, 2006) – The Federal Government fears the death toll from the Solomon Islands tsunami may rise substantially. More than 30 people are so far thought to have been killed after an earth
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Schools on Andaman coast on alert with regular drillsWed, 26 Dec 2018 01:31:00 +0100.

Originating in Indonesia and spreading through the Indian Ocean, the giant 2004 wave destroyed the fishing village of Ban Nam Khem, wrecked the school and killed as many as 4,000 Phang Nga residents. In Thailand alone, the death toll rose t
...(more)
Los principales tsunamis en el mundo desde 2004Sun, 23 Dec 2018 16:35:00 +0100.

--17 de julio de 2006, Indonesia: un sismo submarino de magnitud 7,7 provoca un tsunami en la costa sur de la isla de Java, dejando 654 muertos. --2 de abril de 2007, Islas Salomón: mueren 52 personas en un tsunami que golpea las Islas Salo
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),