Overall Orange Earthquake alert in Solomon Islands from 08 Dec 2016 17:38 UTC to 17:38

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M 8 Earthquake and Tsunami (2.3 m) in Solomon Islands from 08 Dec 2016 17:38 UTC to 17:38

Event summary

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

GDACS ID	EQ 1100349
Earthquake Magnitude:	8.0M
Depth:	40 Km
Lat/Lon:	-10.7 , 161.4
Event Date:	08 Dec 2016 17:38 UTC 09 Dec 2016 04:38 Local
Exposed Population:	About 37000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	08 Dec 2016 17:51 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		Tsunami		GDACS score
NTWC	0		2		2
at00ohvnon	Scaled population (vector)	n.a	Max wave scenario	0m
	C1 earthquake	n.a	Max wave realtime	2.29m
	C2 earthquake	n.a
	Country Vulnerability	n.a
	INFORM_normalised	n.a

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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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Daily Maps: Solomon Islands - Earthquake

09/Dec/2016 04:48 UTC

Data, images, links, services and documents

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

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