M 4.9 in Samoa on 29 Jun 2020 08:56 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 1224450
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.8938 , -171.9372
Event Date: 29 Jun 2020 08:56 UTC
28 Jun 2020 21:56 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Jun 2020 09:20 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Samoa)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000ae74 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: 2 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Comisionada aboga ante el Senado EE.UU por recursos para combatir el C ... Wed, 01 Jul 2020 05:08:00 +0200.

San Juan, 30 jun (EFE News).- La comisionada residente, Jenniffer González, abogó este martes por recursos para combatir el COVID-19 y promover el desarrollo económico de Puerto Rico durante la vista pública celebrada por el Comité de Energ
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American Samoa wants wage increases delayed as challenges to StarKist ... Mon, 22 Jun 2020 20:57:00 +0200.

Currently, around 90% of the nearly 2,500 workers at the cannery in Pago Pago, American Samoa, earn the territory's minimum wage of $5.56 per hour. This is slated to increase to $5.96 per hour as of Sept. 30, 2021, but the American Samoa go
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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),