M 4.7 in Samoa on 14 May 2017 02:01 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 1112931
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.3366 , -172.7077
Event Date: 14 May 2017 02:01 UTC
13 May 2017 14:01 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 May 2017 02:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Samoa)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008sae Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 192 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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Counsel argues proposed legislation racistWed, 17 May 2017 22:11:00 +0200.

To allow displaced of NE to vote May 17, 2017, 10:33 pm By Chitra Weerarathne The proposed Bill to Register Internally Displaced persons of the North and East to entitle them to vote was a racist piece of legislation. That referred only to
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Scienza e Tecnologia Pianeta X in rotta di collisione con la Terra: un ... Wed, 17 May 2017 21:19:00 +0200.

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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),