M 5.1 in Solomon Islands on 05 Aug 2022 02:37 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 1333225
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 111.672 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.7761 , 162.1293
Event Date: 05 Aug 2022 02:37 UTC
05 Aug 2022 13:37 Local
Exposed Population:
30 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 05 Aug 2022 02:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000i88j Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.18  
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Latest media headlines

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Moderate yet deep 5.0 quake hits near Kirakira, Nakumwe, Makira-Ulawa ... 2022-08-05T05:10+0200.

The German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported a magnitude 5.0 quake in the Solomon Islands near Kirakira, Nakumwe, Makira-Ulawa Province, only 14 minutes ago. The earthquake hit around noon on Friday, August 5th, 2022, at 1:37 p
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Moderate mag. 5.0 earthquake - Solomon Islands on Friday, August 5, 20 ... 2022-08-05T05:10+0200.

Moderate yet deep 5.0 quake hits near Kirakira, Nakumwe, Makira-Ulawa Province, Solomon Islands The German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported a magnitude 5.0 quake in the Solomon Islands near Kirakira, Nakumwe, Makira-Ulawa Prov
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'It's ambitious': AWM expansion vital to honour modern vets, director ... 2022-07-22T22:10+0200.

But he is assured by many he has since spoken to that his predecessors have been an especially eclectic bunch - from, say, John Treloar (an archivist) to Steve Gower (a retired major-general), to Brendan Nelson (a former federal minister) a
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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),