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.)

GDACS Score

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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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Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

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),