Overall Green Earthquake alert in Solomon Is. from 09 Sep 2018 19:31 UTC to 19:31

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M 6.7 in Solomon Is. from 09 Sep 2018 19:31 UTC to 19:31

Event summary

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

GDACS ID	EQ 1156248
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.7M
Depth:	53.8 Km
Lat/Lon:	-10.068 , 161.578
Event Date:	09 Sep 2018 19:31 UTC 10 Sep 2018 06:31 Local
Exposed Population:	About 77000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	09 Sep 2018 19:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	6.6 (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		Tsunami		GDACS score
PTWC	0.8		0		0.8
pt18252000	Scaled population (vector)	4.85	Max wave alert	0m
	C1 earthquake	1	Max wave realtime	0.06m
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0.44
	INFORM_normalised	1.18

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Latest media headlines

Fuerte sismo de 6,5 grados sacude islas Salomón 9/10/2018 4:38:00 PM.

El Servicio Geológico de los Estados Unidos ( USGS ) informó que se ha registrado un sismo de magnitud 6,5 en **islas Salomón **sin que se informara de desgracias personales o daños materiales. El sismo habría tenido una profundidad de 5

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15:29 Fuerte sismo de 6,5 grados sacude islas Salomón 9/9/2018 11:03:00 PM.

El Servicio Geológico de los Estados Unidos ( USGS ) informó que se ha registrado un sismo de magnitud 6,5 en islas Salomón sin que se informara de desgracias personales o daños materiales. El sismo habría tenido una profundidad de 54 kilóm

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Solomon Islands rattled by M6.7 earthquake 9/9/2018 10:26:00 PM.

The Solomon Islands have been rattled by a large earthquake. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said the M6.7 earthquake struck just after 6.30am local time (7.30am NZ time) at a depth of 54km. There was no tsunami threat. The US Geological

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Sismo de magnitud 6.7 sacudió las Islas Salomón 9/9/2018 10:15:00 PM.

Servicio de sismología de Chile informó que no reúne condiciones para generar alerta de tsunami en el país mapocho. Un sismo de magnitud 6.7 se registró en las Islas Salomón, en Oceanía, según reportó el servicio de sismología de Chile.

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

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