M 4.9 in Solomon Islands on 24 Nov 2021 23:12 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 1298368
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 135.63 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.6046 , 166.1096
Event Date: 24 Nov 2021 23:12 UTC
25 Nov 2021 10:12 Local
Exposed Population:
20 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 24 Nov 2021 23:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000fwwm Scaled population (vector) 4.79  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0.44  
  INFORM_normalised 1.18  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 25 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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Papua New Guinea: Magnitude-5.4 offshore earthquake occurs off Bougain ... 2021-11-27T06:16+0100.

Event. A magnitude-5.4 offshore earthquake occurred in the Solomon Sea off Bougainville Island at around 14:45 Nov. 27. The epicenter was about 84 km (52 miles) west of Arawa. The tremor occurred at a depth of about 51 km (32 miles), and we
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Moderate mag. 5.4 earthquake - Solomon Sea, 84 km west of Arawa, Bouga ... 2021-11-27T05:15+0100.

An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 occurred early afternoon on Saturday, November 27th, 2021, at 2:45 pm local time near Arawa, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, as reported by the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ). According to prelim
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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),