M 4.6 in Solomon Islands on 15 Apr 2017 15:09 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 1110332
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 39.11 Km
Lat/Lon: -11.0926 , 162.6015
Event Date: 15 Apr 2017 15:09 UTC
16 Apr 2017 02:09 Local
Exposed Population:
About 18000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Apr 2017 15:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008hws Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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),