M 4.8 in Solomon Islands on 31 Oct 2021 02:55 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 1293349
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 31.92 Km
Lat/Lon: -8.9021 , 158.481
Event Date: 31 Oct 2021 02:55 UTC
31 Oct 2021 13:55 Local
Exposed Population:
20 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 31 Oct 2021 03:23 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000fq7f Scaled population (vector) 4.18  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0.44  
  INFORM_normalised 1.18  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 21 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Light mag. 4.4 earthquake - Solomon Sea, 193 km northeast of Lae, Moro ... 2021-11-01T20:17+0100.

The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) reported a magnitude 4.4 quake in Papua New Guinea near Kandrian, West New Britain Province, 34 minutes ago. The earthquake hit early morning on Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021, at 4:20 am
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Papua New Guinea: Magnitude-5.2 offshore earthquake occurs near easter ... 2021-10-25T08:37+0200.

Event. A magnitude-5.2 earthquake occurred in the northern Solomon Sea, east of East New Britain, at 15:21 Oct. 25. The epicenter was about 120 km (75 miles) south-southeast of Kokopo. The tremor occurred at a depth of about 21 km (13 miles
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Scossa di magnitudo 4.8 a Bali, tre morti2021-10-16T08:00+0200.

(Di sabato 16 ottobre 2021) Tre persone sono morte e altre sette sono rimaste ferite a causa di un terremoto di magnitudo 4.8 che ha colpito oggi l'isola di Bali , in Indonesia. Lo ha reso noto la Protezione civile del Paese. La ... : Verg
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Solomon Islands - Earthquake ( GDACS, USGS, media) (ECHO Daily Flash o ... 2021-10-15T11:58+0200.

An earthquake of 6.4 M at a depth of 23 km occurred on 15 October at 2.44 UTC (13.44 local time) offshore between the Islands of Nggatokae and Pavuvu (Solomon Islands). The epicentre was located 85 km southeast of Yandina Town (Pavuvu Islan
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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),