M 5.7 in Samoa on 23 Jul 2016 20:09 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 1090501
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.0935 , -173.6239
Event Date: 23 Jul 2016 20:09 UTC
23 Jul 2016 08:09 Local
Exposed Population: About 900 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Jul 2016 20:33 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20006h4k Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 423 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

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Moderate quake near east coast of JapanWed, 27 Jul 2016 19:29:00 +0200.

TOKYO (AP) " A moderately strong earthquake with an initial magnitude of 5.4 has struck near the East Coast of Honshu Japan. The U.S. Geological Survey said Wednesday that the quake struck 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Funaishikawa at shortly
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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), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),