M 5.1 in Solomon Islands on 26 Apr 2024 16:25 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 1426045
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 51 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.0167 , 160.4166
Event Date: 26 Apr 2024 16:25 UTC
27 Apr 2024 03:25 Local
Exposed Population:
10 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 26 Apr 2024 16:44 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000mu3d Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 454 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 11

Mount Ruang erupts again, thousands evacuated2024-04-30T16:02+0200.

Jakarta (ANTARA) - Thousands of residents in Sitaro Islands District, North Sulawesi, have been evacuated due to the second-phase eruption of Mount Ruang, according to the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB). Abdul Muhari, the BNPB H
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La ciudad de Tocopilla siente temblor de magnitud 4.02024-04-30T15:52+0200.

El Centro Sismológico Nacional (CSN) informó sobre un temblor de magnitud 4.0 con epicentro a 40.0 kilómetros de la ciudad de Tocopilla. Información preliminar señala que el sismo empezó a las 09:35 horas (hora local) de este martes 30 de a
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El Monte Ruang volvió a entrar en erupción en Indonesia y bloqueó al S ... 2024-04-30T15:44+0200.

El monte Ruang volvió a entrar en erupción el martes en Indonesia por segunda vez en dos semanas y arrojó cenizas a casi dos kilómetros (más de una milla) de alto, causó el cierre de un aeropuerto y sembró las localidades cercanas de escomb
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Indonesia's Ruang volcano erupts2024-04-30T15:27+0200.

STORY: The Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) had warned the residents of Tagulandang island that a tsunami could be triggered by volcanic material collapsing into the ocean. The warning, issued on Tuesday morni
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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),