M 5.3 in Solomon Islands on 31 Jan 2018 19:15 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 1132652
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.7782 , 164.3178
Event Date: 31 Jan 2018 19:15 UTC
01 Feb 2018 06:15 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Jan 2018 19:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000cdbe Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 160 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),