Overall Green Earthquake alert in Solomon Is. on 11 Mar 2016 01:08 UTC

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M 4.9 in Solomon Is. on 11 Mar 2016 01:08 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 1082227
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	89.3 Km
Lat/Lon:	-10.2366 , 161.4572
Event Date:	11 Mar 2016 01:08 UTC 11 Mar 2016 12:08 Local
Exposed Population:	About 79695 people within 100km
Inserted at:	11 Mar 2016 01:35 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	n.a		n.a
	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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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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