Overall Green Earthquake alert in Solomon Is. on 12 Mar 2023 07:43 UTC

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M 5.7 in Solomon Is. on 12 Mar 2023 07:43 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 1364382
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.7M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-12.0577 , 165.8247
Event Date:	12 Mar 2023 07:43 UTC 12 Mar 2023 18:43 Local
Exposed Population:	1 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at:	12 Mar 2023 08:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (Solomon Is.)

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000jjax	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 shakemap	0
	C2 shakemap	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),

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