M 4.5 in Samoa on 19 Jun 2017 13:51 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 1115281
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 24.8 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.2806 , -173.4043
Event Date: 19 Jun 2017 13:51 UTC
19 Jun 2017 01:51 Local
Exposed Population:
About 1000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Jun 2017 15:11 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Samoa)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20009nl6 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),