M 5.9 in Solomon Islands on 13 Jan 2018 11:24 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 1130872
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 23.5 Km
Lat/Lon: -11.1957 , 163.0205
Event Date: 13 Jan 2018 11:24 UTC
13 Jan 2018 22:24 Local
Exposed Population: About 3000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Jan 2018 11:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000cj9r Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),