M 5.1 in Solomon Islands on 02 Jan 2017 03:21 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 1102305
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 41.29 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.7762 , 162.0314
Event Date: 02 Jan 2017 03:21 UTC
02 Jan 2017 14:21 Local
Exposed Population:
About 40000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Jan 2017 03:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007p5u Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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 (40), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),