M 6 in Solomon Islands on 19 Mar 2017 15:43 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 1108201
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 4.23 Km
Lat/Lon: -8.1474 , 160.7369
Event Date: 19 Mar 2017 15:43 UTC
20 Mar 2017 02:43 Local
Exposed Population: About 4000 people in MMI
About 94000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Mar 2017 17:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.3 0.3
us20008t6m Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),