M 5.3 in Solomon Islands on 01 Dec 2021 17:23 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 1299632
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 43.53 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.392 , 161.2935
Event Date: 01 Dec 2021 17:23 UTC
02 Dec 2021 04:23 Local
Exposed Population:
70 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 07 Dec 2021 22:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000g88z Scaled population (vector) 5.01  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0.44  
  INFORM_normalised 1.18  
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Latest media headlines

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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),