M 4.7 in Solomon Islands on 28 Nov 2021 20:29 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 1298964
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.4488 , 161.0192
Event Date: 28 Nov 2021 20:29 UTC
29 Nov 2021 07:29 Local
Exposed Population:
40 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 28 Nov 2021 21:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000fxtf Scaled population (vector) 4.41  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0.44  
  INFORM_normalised 1.18  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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),