M 4.7 in Samoa on 22 Feb 2017 09:02 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 1106149
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.7189 , -173.4662
Event Date: 22 Feb 2017 09:02 UTC
21 Feb 2017 21:02 Local
Exposed Population:
About 1000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Feb 2017 09:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Samoa)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008ldf Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Moins de radiations, mais une tâche titanesqueSun, 26 Feb 2017 07:01:00 +0100.

Daiichi est tangible. Mais une fois in situ, le visiteur ressent l'incommensurabilité du chantier. Quelque 6000 hommes vont et viennent chaque jour dans ce gigantesque site ravagé par le tsunami de mars 2011. Des masques faciaux, casques, c
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Moins de radiations, mais une tâche titanesqueSun, 26 Feb 2017 07:00:00 +0100.

Daiichi est tangible. Mais une fois in situ, le visiteur ressent l'incommensurabilité du chantier. Quelque 6000 hommes vont et viennent chaque jour dans ce gigantesque site ravagé par le tsunami de mars 2011. Des masques faciaux, casques, c
...(more)
Moins de radiations, mais une tâche titanesqueSun, 26 Feb 2017 06:57:00 +0100.

Daiichi est tangible. Mais une fois in situ, le visiteur ressent l'incommensurabilité du chantier. Quelque 6000 hommes vont et viennent chaque jour dans ce gigantesque site ravagé par le tsunami de mars 2011. Des masques faciaux, casques, c
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),