M 4.8 in Solomon Islands on 29 Apr 2024 14:38 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 1426525
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 86.9 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.2338 , 161.4332
Event Date: 29 Apr 2024 14:38 UTC
30 Apr 2024 01:38 Local
Exposed Population:
30 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 29 Apr 2024 16:08 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000muwk 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: 7 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Hong Kong, May 2 (UNI) An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 jolted 101 km ESE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea at 2345 GMT on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 31.3 km, was initially determined to be at 5
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Light mag. 4.5 earthquake - 55 km southeast of Kirakira, Makira-Ulawa, ... 2024-05-02T02:38+0200.

Nearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Kirakira , a town with 1,100 inhabitants in the Solomon Islands , in 55 km (34 mi) distance northwest of the epicenter. People likely experienced weak shaking the
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Israeli team unveils carbon-dating techniques that may shore up Jerusa ... 2024-04-30T22:17+0200.

An Israeli team has achieved a breakthrough in advanced radiocarbon dating techniques, enabling for the first time an “absolute chronology” of Jerusalem in the Iron Age, the time of the Kingdom of Judah and the First Temple, according to a
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World Earthquake Report for Tuesday, 30 April 20242024-04-30T07:25+0200.

This report is being updated every hour. Magnitude 5 +: 2 earthquakes Magnitude 4 +: 39 earthquakes Magnitude 3 +: 124 earthquakes Magnitude 2 +: 256 earthquakes No quakes of magnitude 6 or higher. Total seismic energy estimate: 2.2 x 10 1
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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),