M 6.4 in Solomon Is. on 15 Oct 2021 02:44 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 1290280
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.4M
Depth: 22.55 Km
Lat/Lon: -8.8768 , 158.4815
Event Date: 15 Oct 2021 02:44 UTC
15 Oct 2021 13:44 Local
Exposed Population: About 4000 people in MMI
20 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 18 Oct 2021 14:59 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us6000furk Scaled population (raster) 0.3 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1.18      
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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 (91), (5), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),