M 4.6 in Solomon Islands on 12 Oct 2017 22:46 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 1123701
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -11.1379 , 161.701
Event Date: 12 Oct 2017 22:46 UTC
13 Oct 2017 09:46 Local
Exposed Population:
About 31000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Oct 2017 23:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000ar56 Scaled population (vector) 3.95  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0.44  
  INFORM_normalised 1.18  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 294 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

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Nuevamente se activó por error alerta de tsunami en AntofagastaMon, 16 Oct 2017 21:34:00 +0200.

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Diplomati magistrali esultano: illegittimo vietare il cambio della pro ... Mon, 16 Oct 2017 20:39:00 +0200.

(Di lunedì 16 ottobre 2017) I Diplomati magistrali portano a casa un’altra vittoria grazie alla recentissima pronuncia del Tar in ordine al divieto di cambio della provincia . I problemi con il decreto ministeriale 374/2017 erano sorti imme
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),