M 4.9 in Solomon Islands on 17 Mar 2022 15:19 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 1314227
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -11.2594 , 165.4715
Event Date: 17 Mar 2022 15:19 UTC
18 Mar 2022 02:19 Local
Exposed Population:
10 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 17 Mar 2022 16:50 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000h5f3 Scaled population (vector) 3.63  
  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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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),