M 5.2 in Solomon Islands on 27 May 2022 09:43 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 1324200
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 17.4 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.9204 , 156.4164
Event Date: 27 May 2022 09:43 UTC
27 May 2022 20:43 Local
Exposed Population:
50 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 27 May 2022 10:07 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000hd0f Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 8 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Just 23 minutes ago, a 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck near Arawa, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. The tremor was recorded in the morning on Thursday, May 12th, 2022, at 9:24 am local time, at a shallow depth of 10 km below the surface. The
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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),