M 6 in Samoa on 17 Mar 2020 16:06 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 1210414
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.9951 , -172.1366
Event Date: 17 Mar 2020 16:06 UTC
17 Mar 2020 05:06 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Mar 2020 20:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Samoa)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us60008h76 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: 14 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

American Samoans comment on Tuesday’s 6.1 earthquakeWed, 18 Mar 2020 21:10:00 +0100.

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 occurred about 134 miles Southwest of Tutuila at 5:06 a.m yesterday The Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a statement a few minutes later saying
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samoa 6.1 magnitude earthquake rattles Samoa, no tsunami By Soli Wilso ... Wed, 18 Mar 2020 06:48:00 +0100.

Samoa was awakened on Wednesday morning by a 6.1 magnitude earthquake at around 6am local time. The Samoa Meteorological Office advised in a post on their Facebook page that the tremor was approximately 10km deep in the Samoa region, occurr
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Samoa shaken by 5.8 magnitude earthquakeWed, 18 Mar 2020 04:49:00 +0100.

Seismograph recording the seismic activity of an earthquake (file picture). Source: istock.com The magnitude 5.8 quake stuck south of the Pacific Island nation in the Tongan Trench at 5.06am NZT. 1 NEWS spoke to a New Zealand couple livin
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No tsunami threat to American Samoa after early morning earthquakeTue, 17 Mar 2020 20:33:00 +0100.

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 occurred about 134 miles Southwest of Tutuila Island at 5:06am, this morning, Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Based on all available data from the Pacific Tsunami Warnin
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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),