Overall Green Earthquake alert in Solomon Islands from 18 Nov 2015 18:31 UTC to 18:31

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M 6.9 in Solomon Islands from 18 Nov 2015 18:31 UTC to 18:31

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID	EQ 1072748
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.9M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-9.04 , 158.42
Event Date:	18 Nov 2015 18:31 UTC 19 Nov 2015 05:31 Local
Exposed Population:	About 41239 people within 100km
Inserted at:	18 Nov 2015 18:38 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		Tsunami		GDACS score
GEOFON	0		1		0.5
gfz2015wpxd	Scaled population (vector)	n.a	Max wave scenario	0m
	C1 earthquake	n.a	Max wave realtime	0.35m
	C2 earthquake	n.a
	Country Vulnerability	n.a
	INFORM_normalised	n.a

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (88), (5), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),

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