M 4.6 in Solomon Islands on 27 Nov 2014 12:40 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 1043899
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.95 , 155.63
Event Date: 27 Nov 2014 12:40 UTC
27 Nov 2014 23:40 Local
Exposed Population:
About 86953 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Nov 2014 13:09 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 207 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

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Moderate quake off northern SumatraMon, 01 Dec 2014 05:55:00 +0100.

KUALA LUMPUR: A moderate earthquake, measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale, hit an area off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia, at 2.03am Monday, the Malaysian Meteorological Department reported. It said in a statement that the epic
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Moderate earthquake hits northern SumateraMon, 01 Dec 2014 05:41:00 +0100.

KUALA LUMPUR: A moderate earthquake, measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale, hit an area off the west coast of northern Sumatera, Indonesia, at 2.03 am, the Malaysian Meteorological Department reported. It said in a statement that the epicentre
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),