M 6.8 in Solomon Is. on 22 May 2015 23:59 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 1055583
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -11.1571 , 163.1936
Event Date: 22 May 2015 23:59 UTC
23 May 2015 10:59 Local
Exposed Population:
About 2027 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 May 2015 00:19 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0.1 0.5
Scaled population (vector) n.a Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake n.a Max wave realtime 0.09m  
  C2 earthquake n.a      
  Country Vulnerability n.a      
  INFORM_normalised n.a      
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (81), (5), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), INFORM (4), USGS (2), NOAA (1),