Overall Green Earthquake alert in Solomon Islands on 18 Mar 2022 05:19 UTC

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M 4.9 in Solomon Islands on 18 Mar 2022 05:19 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 1314302
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	36.2 Km
Lat/Lon:	-9.7242 , 159.7991
Event Date:	18 Mar 2022 05:19 UTC 18 Mar 2022 16:19 Local
Exposed Population:	210 thousand in 100km
Inserted at:	18 Mar 2022 05:38 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000h5m3	Scaled population (vector)	5.57
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0.44
	INFORM_normalised	1.18

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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),

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