M 4.9 in Solomon Islands on 23 Mar 2017 17:00 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 1108486
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10.93 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.1236 , 155.4991
Event Date: 23 Mar 2017 17:00 UTC
24 Mar 2017 04:00 Local
Exposed Population:
About 80000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Mar 2017 18:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Papua New Guinea= 7.6; Solomon Is.= 6.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008u36 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),