Overall Green Earthquake alert in Solomon Islands on 26 Dec 2021 10:39 UTC

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M 4.7 in Solomon Islands on 26 Dec 2021 10:39 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 1303483
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-9.6796 , 161.0093
Event Date:	26 Dec 2021 10:39 UTC 26 Dec 2021 21:39 Local
Exposed Population:	150 thousand in 100km
Inserted at:	26 Dec 2021 11:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000gfe8	Scaled population (vector)	4.99
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0.44
	INFORM_normalised	1.18

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