Overall Green Earthquake alert in Solomon Islands on 27 Nov 2021 18:48 UTC

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M 5.3 in Solomon Islands on 27 Nov 2021 18:48 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 1298757
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.3M
Depth:	49.39 Km
Lat/Lon:	-7.0307 , 155.9432
Event Date:	27 Nov 2021 18:48 UTC 28 Nov 2021 05:48 Local
Exposed Population:	120 thousand in 100km
Inserted at:	04 Dec 2021 07:40 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	7.6 (Papua New Guinea)
INFORM Coping capacity list:	Papua New Guinea= 7.6; Solomon Is.= 6.6

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000fxj5	Scaled population (raster)	0
	C1 shakemap	-0.59
	C2 shakemap	0.53
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1.3

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