M 4.8 in Solomon Islands on 22 Jul 2022 08:18 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 1331565
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 87.02 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.1719 , 156.0514
Event Date: 22 Jul 2022 08:18 UTC
22 Jul 2022 19:18 Local
Exposed Population:
10 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 22 Jul 2022 08:38 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000hslw Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 2.48  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 3 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Moderate mag. 4.8 earthquake - 65 km southeast of Honiara, Solomon Isl ... 2022-06-23T19:59+0200.

An earthquake of magnitude 4.8 occurred only 24 minutes ago 65 km southeast of Honiara, Solomon Islands, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported. The quake hit at a shallow depth of 10 km beneath the epicenter near Honiara
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Moderate magnitude 4.8 earthquake 65 km southeast of Honiara, Solomon ... 2022-06-23T19:41+0200.

An earthquake of magnitude 4.8 occurred only 24 minutes ago 65 km southeast of Honiara, Solomon Islands, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported. The quake hit at a shallow depth of 10 km beneath the epicenter near Honiara
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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),