M 5.8 in Samoa on 22 Oct 2019 04:18 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 1191259
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.1979 , -173.0498
Event Date: 22 Oct 2019 04:18 UTC
21 Oct 2019 16:18 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Oct 2019 04:25 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Samoa)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70005x1t Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 40 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

Earthquake didn’t trigger tsunami alert for American SamoaWed, 23 Oct 2019 19:48:00 +0200.

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Hundreds of local residents panicked when things started ‘shaking’ — for a few seconds — this past Monday. It was due to an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 that occurred about 81 miles south of Sav
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Magnitude 6.0 quake strikes off SamoaTue, 22 Oct 2019 17:29:00 +0200.

Apia, SAMOA — An earthquake of magnitude 6.0 has struck off the Pacific Island nation of Samoa on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The agency said the moderate earthquake hit at a depth of 89-kilometres, rou
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Earthquake of magnitude 6 strikes off SamoaTue, 22 Oct 2019 10:13:00 +0200.

An earthquake of magnitude 6 struck off the Pacific island nation of Samoa on Tuesday, the United States Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage in the quake, which the agency said hit at a depth of 8
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6.0-magnitude earthquake hits near shores of SamoaTue, 22 Oct 2019 07:30:00 +0200.

According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), a 6.0-magnitude tremor struck off Samoa Tuesday morning. The epicentre of the quake is located at a depth of 89 kilometres (55 miles), about 169 km (105 miles) southwest of the capita
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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 (5), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),