Overall Green Earthquake alert in Solomon Islands on 08 Dec 2023 00:41 UTC

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M 5.8 in Solomon Islands on 08 Dec 2023 00:41 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 1404655
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.8M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-8.4187 , 157.1505
Event Date:	08 Dec 2023 00:41 UTC 08 Dec 2023 11:41 Local
Exposed Population:	Few people affected (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at:	08 Dec 2023 01:10 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000lh76	Scaled population (raster)	0.95
	C1 shakemap	-0.59
	C2 shakemap	0.53
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1.18

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),

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