M 5.3 in Samoa on 07 Dec 2017 23:10 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 1128224
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.2603 , -173.4744
Event Date: 07 Dec 2017 23:10 UTC
07 Dec 2017 11:10 Local
Exposed Population:
About 1000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 Dec 2017 23:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Samoa)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000c1w5 Scaled population (vector) 2.19  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 130 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),