M 5.4 in Solomon Islands on 07 Dec 2021 10:28 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 1300345
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 170.33 Km
Lat/Lon: -9.9634 , 161.0433
Event Date: 07 Dec 2021 10:28 UTC
07 Dec 2021 21:28 Local
Exposed Population:
100 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 07 Dec 2021 10:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000ga0c Scaled population (vector) 4.72  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0.44  
  INFORM_normalised 1.18  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 31 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Solomon Islands: Magnitude-5.4 offshore earthquake occurs southeast of ... 2021-12-07T14:14+0100.

Event. A magnitude-5.4 offshore earthquake occurred southeast of Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, at around 21:27 Dec. 7. The epicenter was about 134 km (83 miles) east-southeast of Honiara. The tremor occurred at a depth of about 168 km (104
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Moderate yet deep magnitude 5.5 quake hits 124 km southeast of Honiara ... 2021-12-07T11:54+0100.

Solomon Islands was shaken near Honiara, by an earthquake of magnitude 5.5 only 14 minutes ago, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported. The quake hit at an intermediate to considerable depth of 172 km beneath the epicente
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Moderate mag. 5.4 earthquake - Solomon Islands on Tuesday, December 7, ... 2021-12-07T11:54+0100.

Solomon Islands was shaken near Honiara, by an earthquake of magnitude 5.5 only 14 minutes ago, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported. The quake hit at an intermediate to considerable depth of 172 km beneath the epicente
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Moderate magnitude 4.7 earthquake 91 km northwest of Kirakira, Solomon ... 2021-12-04T11:59+0100.

An earthquake of magnitude 4.7 occurred 36 minutes ago 91 km northwest of Kirakira, Solomon Islands, the United States Geological Survey reported. The quake hit at a moderately shallow depth of 49.4 km beneath the epicenter near Kirakira, N
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Exposed population

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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),