M 5.8 in Solomon Islands on 08 Dec 2023 00:41 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 1404655
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -8.4187 , 157.1505
Event Date: 08 Dec 2023 00:41 UTC
08 Dec 2023 11:41 Local
Exposed Population: Few people affected (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at: 08 Dec 2023 01:10 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000lh76 Scaled population (raster) 0.95  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.18  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 14 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Moderate mag. 5.0 earthquake - Papua New Guinea: New Britain Region, P ... 2023-12-11T21:33+0100.

Seismic station: Honiara, Solomon Islands (HNR/IU network) | Distance from quake: 1035 km / 643 mi | Show on map Station Info Seismogram (vertical component) around time of quake. Thin dotted red line indicates time of quake. Seismic waves
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Moderate mag. 5.0 earthquake - New Britain Region, P.n.g., on Monday, ... 2023-12-11T18:56+0100.

Seismic station: Honiara, Solomon Islands (HNR/IU network) | Distance from quake: 1110 km / 690 mi | Show on map Station Info Seismogram (vertical component) around time of quake. Thin dotted red line indicates time of quake. Seismic waves
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PNG : Un séisme offshore de magnitude 5,5 se produit à l’ouest de Boug ... 2023-12-08T17:55+0100.

Un tremblement de terre de magnitude 5,5 s’est produit à l’ouest de Bougainville dans la mer des Salomon vers 02h27 BST le 9 décembre. L’épicentre était à environ 239 km (149 miles) à l’ouest de Panguna, Bougainville. La secousse s’est prod
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Strong mag. 5.7 earthquake - New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea, on ... 2023-12-08T16:41+0100.

Seismic station: Honiara, Solomon Islands (HNR/IU network) | Distance from quake: 812 km / 504 mi | Show on map Station Info Seismogram (vertical component) around time of quake. Thin dotted red line indicates time of quake. Seismic waves 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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),