M 5.8 in Solomon Islands on 16 Nov 2022 22:26 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 1346583
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 139 Km
Lat/Lon: -11.6959 , 166.6027
Event Date: 16 Nov 2022 22:26 UTC
17 Nov 2022 09:26 Local
Exposed Population: 8 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 16 Nov 2022 23:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000iq83 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.18  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 558 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

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Durante un temblor manten la calma y ubícate en un lugar seguro, aléjate de objetos que puedan caer, no uses los ascensores, ni te quedes en la caja de las escaleras, ni en el marco de una puerta. Si estás en un automóvil , estaciónate y po
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Sismo de 2.8 de magnitud sorprende a la ciudad de María Elena2022-11-20T18:21+0100.

Durante un temblor manten la calma y ubícate en un lugar seguro, aléjate de objetos que puedan caer, no uses los ascensores, ni te quedes en la caja de las escaleras, ni en el marco de una puerta. Si estás en un automóvil , estaciónate y po
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Moderate earthquake hits central Indonesia2022-11-20T18:15+0100.

JAKARTA, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 jolted East Nusa Tenggara province in central Indonesia on Sunday evening, the country's meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency said. The quake occurred at 20:49 loc
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),